Common Variable for All Scripts

Anon

I heard it's possible to define a PHP variable in .htaccess so that on every PHP scripts I can just firectly call that variable and use it.

Does anyone know how?

Thanks in advance!

Anon

I haven't heard that one before... I would be interested in where you picked that up. I would theorize it MAY be possible if you set Apache to parse .htaccess files as PHP files (I'm not sure though because Apache usually never lets you load .htaccess pages from a browser). I'm also not sure if you would want to have it parse your .htaccess files.

Are you sure it wasn't something more along the lines of using Apache's ability to auto prepend/append a file to pages that are loaded? I fuzzily remember that can be set in .htaccess files as a directive. That way you could have it auto prepend a PHP file on every page that you load.

Sorry if that wasn't much help, but that one is new to me.

Tim Frank

Anon

Hi Tim,

I just tried to look for the an old thread somebody posted before and I found this:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=105853&loc=0&thread=105853

I tried what they said but it doesn't work for me though...

Anon

That is only for php directives if you want a variable that is persistent in all pages you will need to use sessions and have that variable established as soon as the session is initiated.

Anon

Agreed. The only other thing I can suggest, aside from sessions, for global type variables is making a file like "variables.inc" or "variables.php" and putting your variables and values in that. Then you would include("variables.php") in ALL of the scripts that need access to those variables.
That is what I do for things like database names and stuff. You might want to keep those outside of the document root if you use file extensions that aren't parsed by PHP (like .inc may not be parsed on your server if it wasn't configured to do so and anyone could read the contents of the file from the web if left in the document tree).

Hope that helps.

Tim Frank