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[Phillip Powell]

Joel De Gan wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 12:36, Andrew Yochum wrote:
>  
>
>>Try the __FILE__ constant.  Example:
>>    echo __FILE__;
>>
>>    
>>
>
>There is also getcwd() for the dir.. i.e.
>$dir = getcwd();
>$file = $dir . "/" . $PHP_SELF;
>
>cheers
>  
>

Thanx.  This, however, opened up a rather annoying can-of-worms at this 
point.  My company wants me to ensure that the application I built is 
thoroughly portable and scalable, of course, not unreasonable.  Which 
means that all of the required code will be thoroughly portable from 
Client A thorugh Client Z and will work exactly the same for Client A 
through Client Z.

This means that it needs to globally include two library scripts I 
wrote: one (client_globals.inc.php) that will set all of the 
client-related global variables/functions/classes/stuff, and one 
(project_globals.inc.php) that will set all of the 
client-related-project-related global stuff specific to that client's 
project.

The code I wrote to do this is this and resides only in one file 
(index.php):

[PHP]
 require(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 
'/acme/acme_globals/client_globals.inc.php'));        // GET GLOBAL ACME 
- SCOPE ITEMS/CLASSES

  // GET PROJECT-SCOPE VARIABLES FOR I.C.
  
require(realpath("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/$clientFolderName/image_catalog/image_catalog_globals/project_globals.inc.php"));
[/PHP]

Here's the problem.  Suppose that my company wants to market this 
product out to another client, Foo Industries.  That would mean that the 
folks that get my application will have to literally MANUALLY change the 
lines in index.php from 'acme' to 'foo' or whatever the folder name will 
be for that client.  This is, of course, quite a major-league hassle to 
ask for.  And frankly, I just can't think of any system I want to use 
that would be able to automate the process so that the code in index.php 
can remain fairly "static" and not needing to be physically altered from 
client to client.

If anyone can think of how I might be able to approach this, I'm all ears.

Thanx
Phil


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