Posted by Paul on 03/28/07 21:50

"Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Paul" <lof@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> |I am moving an existing app written years ago to a new server. It uses
> | Sigma Template 1.3 and Quickform 1.1.1 and PEAR.php,v 1.1.1.1 2004/02/16
> |
> | The directory structure is like this:
> | /site
> | /site/html/Pear.php
> | /site/html/Sigma.php
> | /site/html/Common.php
> | /site/html/Quickform.php
> | /site/html/Quickform/
> | /site/Mail/mail.php
> | /pages/page1.php
> | ...
>
> you should create a site/application class and give it interfaces that
> point
> to paths. mine looks like this:
>
> <?
> class application
> {
> static private $_instance = null;
>
> static public $adminEmail = '';
> static public $classDirectory = '';
> static public $cssDirectory = '';
> static public $currentPage = '';
> static public $description = '';
> static public $errorLogFile = '';
> static public $fontDirectory = '';
> static public $homePage = '';
> static public $host = '';
> static public $htdocsDirectory = '';
> static public $imagesDirectory = '';
> static public $includeDirectory = '';
> static public $jscriptDirectory = '';
> static public $lastSecurityCode = '';
> static public $logo = '';
> static public $mailDropDirectory = '';
> static public $popUpAttributes = '';
> static public $rootDirectory = '';
> static public $securityCode = '';
> static public $title = '';
> static public $uploadBaseDirectory = '';
> static public $uri = '';
>
> private function __clone(){}
>
> private function __construct(){}
>
> static function getInstance()
> {
> if (is_null(self::$_instance)){ self::$_instance = new application(); }
> return self::$_instance;
> }
> }
> ?>
>
> in your code, you should do something like:
>
> $site = application::getInstance();
> $site->includePath = '/site/inc/';
>
> and in your other code, reference the interface:
>
> require_once $site->includePath . 'some.script.php'
>
> the site/application class should be put in on file that is required by
> *all* of your scripts at the beginning. when you roll out to another site
> (which could have a completely different directory structure), all you
> have
> to do is edit this required script to point the class interfaces to the
> appropriate directories. i call mine 'site.cfg.php'. i also put this
> script
> (relative.path.php) in php's include path:
>
> <?
> $parsedUri = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
> $parsedUri .= substr($parsedUri, -1) != '/' ? '/' : '';
> $relativeUri = str_replace('/', '', $parsedUri);
> $relativePath = strlen($parsedUri) - strlen($relativeUri) - 1;
> if ($relativePath < 0){ $relativePath = 0; }
> $relativePath = str_repeat('../', $relativePath);
> if (!$relativePath){ $relativePath = './'; }
> ?>
>
> so, every script i have starts out like this:
>
> <?
> require_once 'relative.path.php';
> require_once $relativePath . 'site.cfg.php';
> ?>
>
> thus, it makes *no* difference how php is configured nor how deeply nested
> a
> script is in your directory structure, your script will always be pointing
> to the correct files you require.
>
> hth,
>
> me

very cool idea - thanks

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