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[Phillip Powell]

Joel De Gan wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:43, Phillip Powell wrote:
>  
>
>>I can easily write config.php, however, my knowledge of "define" comes 
>>from the PHP manual, and I see nowhere where it states that anything in 
>>define() is in a persistent state.  If I run "config.php", I lose all of 
>>my defined constants, don't I?  And when I go to "index.php" via 
>>browser, how would it know how to go to config.php if config.php would 
>>have to reside outside of the docroot?
>>
>>Again I'm probably overcomplicating this but I can't honestly follow 
>>your train of logic, though I want to.
>>    
>>
>
>just try it.
>
>if you want to know all your defined constants try the following in a
>script.
>
>echo "<pre>\n";
>print_r($GLOBALS);
>  
>

I tried it, and here are the steps I would have to take to ensure that 
it would work.

The admin guy will do this:

php -q ../install.php

Here is install.php:

<?php

  
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    File: INSTALL.PHP
    Created: 5/18/2004
    Modified: 5/18/2004
    Purpose: This file will be housed in the /docs document folder for 
the IVC project documentation list and not kept inside the document
             root.  It will generate all necessary global scripts for 
use within the IVC.
    Dependencies:
            Will be called via command-line PHP and can be set up as a 
cron, if so, move to /cron/[client folder name]/[project folder name].
            Takes two required parameters:

                1) client folder name
                2) project folder name

    Cookies: NONE
    Sessions: NONE
    Privacy Scope: Command-line PHP and not meant to be viewable by web 
server
  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
  if (!is_file('client_project_folder_info.csv')) {
   $clientFolderName = $argv[1];
   $projectFolderName = $argv[2];
   $contents .= 
"\"clientFolderName\",\"$clientFolderName\"\n\"projectFolderName\",\"$projectFolderName\"";
   $fileID = @fopen('client_project_folder_info.csv', 'wb');
   @fputs($fileID, $contents); @fflush($fileID); @fclose($fileID);
  }
  @chmod('client_project_folder_info.csv', 0644);
  // BE SURE TO COPY IT MANUALLY INTO /[document root]/[client folder 
name]/[project folder name] DIRECTORY TO BE READ BY index.php

  define('CLIENT_FOLDER_NAME', $clientFolderName);
  define('PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME', $projectFolderName);
?>

And again, I'm not at all following your train of logic.  In 
"index.php", on the docroot, I have this line:

[PHP]
list($clientFolderName, $projectFolderName) = array(CLIENT_FOLDER_NAME, 
PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME);
require(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 
"/$clientFolderName/${clientFolderName}_globals/client_globals.inc.php"));
[/PHP]

You go to your browser, open up "index.php" and this is what you see:

[Quote]
*Fatal error*: main(): Failed opening required '' 
(include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in */www/html/index.php* on line *64
[/Quote]

Phil
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