Posted by frothpoker on 06/20/06 11:30

Guys,

I'm sure this has been asked a million times but I can't seem to
formulate a google search that returns what i'm looking for.

I've go a dev and live environment. Currently the DB connect string is
hard coded into each php file which means i'm going to have to change
every page - Arrgh!!

If i put the DBonnect into a function and store it in an include file,
it doesn't seem to work, Also the connetion works with inline PHP
statements, but I have to repeat it in every function even if they are
in the main php file??? which doesn't seem right to me..

I need to either :-

Store the connection variables in an include file and retrieve them as
global values

OR

Store the connection string in a function in an include file which can
be accessed by all functions.

also do I really have to call the dbconnect inside every function.

Please note, if it makes any difference, I still havn't got my head
round OO programming in PHP so it is still pretty much procedural. I
am using PEAR but dont really understand (or care at the moment) about
what it is doing.

Thanks in advance

Aaron

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