Posted by L C on 03/21/06 01:47

Thanks much
I'll do some reading

LC

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> L C wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to update a web page we have, not a web person so I
apologize in
> > advance. When I try to use Dreamweaver to work on it I end up going to
our
> > public site. It seems as though the site name is "hardcoded" in a php
file.
> > I have included the code of the pages that call each other -
Index.html ->
> > index.php -> dopage.php. In the dopage.pgp page you will see that
> > $publicaddress is mapped to our site (site name changed for this
posting).
> >
> > My question is: How do I get around that so I can test my edits without
> > going to the web?
>
> There are a couple of options here,
>
> The fast one:
>
> 1. Open a terminal (dos prompt)
> 2. CD to the directory where the main script is located
> 3. execute the script with php (php.exe index.php)
>
>
> The more complicated way:
>
> 1. Setup a webserver+php (run it only on 127.0.0.1)
> 2. place the scripts in a "public" location
> 3. access the page in questuon (http://127.0.0.1/index.php)
> (easy way to make this, is to install linux or bsd)
>
>
>
> > $publicAddress = 'http://www.publicsite.com/';
>
> IMHO this is better:
> $publicAddress= 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
>
> Then you don't have to change anything, the script will know the location
from
> the server. There are quite many useful globals to use, see
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php
>
>
> //Aho

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