Writing into external files ! Help please..

[wanted66]

Hello,

I'm very new to PHP. Started learning recently. I'm trying to do something but struggling to find a solution. Hope someone can help me ?

I have a file addon.php which has a variable declared,

$email = '[e-mail]';

Now I have a php based contact form which is to be used in the website. It has a file contactprocess.php which processes the contact form email. I have to usually change the value to any email address I want the contact form to send to by editing

[U]$mail->AddAddress('[B][e-mail][/B]');[/U]

This is the Code in contactprocess.php

	$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->From = $email;
$mail->FromName = 'Email from my website';
$mail->AddAddress($email);	
$mail->AddAddress('[e-mail]');

Now what I'm trying to do is IF I change my addon.php file email value I want it to be changed in contactprocess.php ($mail->AddAddress('[e-mail]')😉 without breaking its functionality !!!

How Can I do this ? Any help guys ? Appreciate it 🙂

[Bonesnap]

First thing that comes to mind is creating a third script and defining a constant variable, then including it wherever you want to use it.

//Call this script anything you want, let's say email.php for example
define(THE_EMAIL, '[e-mail]');

Then in any script you want to use it, include it at the top and use the variable.

//In your contactprocess.php file
require_once('email.php');
$mail->AddAddress(THE_EMAIL);

You can now use THE_EMAIL anywhere (so long as you include the email.php script) and if you ever have to change it, you only have to change it where it's being defined.

[wanted66]

Bonesnap;10989994 wrote:

First thing that comes to mind is creating a third script and defining a constant variable, then including it wherever you want to use it.

//Call this script anything you want, let's say email.php for example
define(THE_EMAIL, '[e-mail]');

Then in any script you want to use it, include it at the top and use the variable.

//In your contactprocess.php file
require_once('email.php');
$mail->AddAddress(THE_EMAIL);

You can now use THE_EMAIL anywhere (so long as you include the email.php script) and if you ever have to change it, you only have to change it where it's being defined.

Hi, Thank you so much ! This works perfectly ! 😃 Many thanks for your help.