[RESOLVED] Location of defined constants

outlawkev

I want to modify some open source BASE code and I keep seeing these references to constants like USEALERTDB TITLE _SOURCEIP or the ones in the line below. Where are these constants defined. I have looked in all files and cannot find references to these anywhere in the BASE directory. Are they in some library file?

<td style="text-align:left;">- '.MOSTFREQUENT . $freq_num_uaddr . " " .ADDRESSES.":".'</td>

I am not a PHP programmer.

laserlight

I do not recognise them as PHP's own constants, so you could try searching for a "define(" since constants are defined using [man]define/man.

outlawkev

I looked for define() statements but there were only a couple and this code makes extensive use of these _CONSTANTS everywhere. It is really bugging me yet I feel the answer is probably very simple.

laserlight

Well, what is the code, as in which open source project did you get it from? Note that named constants are only defined once, so that there are only a couple of define()s and many uses of such user defined named constants is not surprising.

outlawkev

Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) project. I have looked on their site for some info but have not found any. BASE is the web ui to SNORT IDS data.

http://base.secureideas.net/

outlawkev

I found it. Just as I thought the answer was very simple. There is a sub-directory called languages and a file for every language, such as english.lang.php in which there dozens of entries such as the following:

DEFINE('NOALERTSDETECT','no alerts detected');
DEFINE('USEALERTDB','Use Alert Database');
DEFINE('USEARCHIDB','Use Archive Database');
DEFINE('TITLE','Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) '.$BASE_installID);
DEFINE('_FRMLOGIN','Login:');