Auto prepend problem

[lazypig06]

Hi !

I'd like to ask everyone this question. I am currently maintain a
website which have hundreds of pages and lot of subdirectories. Most of
these pages contains a common function (let's call it "foo()" on top of
each of these pages. I've tried to use auto prepend and .htaccess to
prepend a file which contains an exact function foo() that is being
used on other pages.

I kept getting error "Cannot redeclare foo() in..." when I try to use
..htaccess and auto prepend feature. I've tried to remove foo() from
each page and use the foo() in the include file instead, but this
process take too much time. Is there anyway that I can tell PHP to
ignore the foo() function that is being redeclare in each page ? (I
know that I eventually have to remove foo() in every page).

Sorry for a lengthy question.

Thank you in advance,
Lazy Pig

[m2m tech support]

la*******@gmail.com wrote:

... Is there anyway that I can tell PHP to
ignore the foo() function that is being redeclare in each page ? (I
know that I eventually have to remove foo() in every page).

Sorry, don't know of such a solution. Could you do the following?
Write a script which browses all your pages and when it finds "foo()"
just rename it to something like "foo_old()".

Cheers

[Tim Hunt]

la*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi !

I'd like to ask everyone this question. I am currently maintain a
website which have hundreds of pages and lot of subdirectories. Most of
these pages contains a common function (let's call it "foo()" on top of
each of these pages. I've tried to use auto prepend and .htaccess to
prepend a file which contains an exact function foo() that is being
used on other pages.

I kept getting error "Cannot redeclare foo() in..." when I try to use
.htaccess and auto prepend feature. I've tried to remove foo() from
each page and use the foo() in the include file instead, but this
process take too much time. Is there anyway that I can tell PHP to
ignore the foo() function that is being redeclare in each page ? (I
know that I eventually have to remove foo() in every page).

Sorry for a lengthy question.

Thank you in advance,
Lazy Pig

There are at least two ways you could do this: Put the declaration of
foo() inside this if block, if( !function_exists('foo')) { .... }, so
the function is only parsed if it hasnt already been declared. Another
way is put if( defined('fufile') ) {return;} define('fufile',1); at the
top of the file foo() is declared in - it quickly exists the include'd
file when it is included a 2nd/3rd/... time.

Tim

[lazypig06]

Hi !

Thank you for your response. I already tried the first method, but that
didn't work since auto prepend happened first, then the foo() function
in each page is being process next.

What do you mean "fufile" in your second method ? is it the include
file's name which contains foo() function ?

Thank you for your help,
Lazy Pig
Tim Hunt wrote:

la*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi !

I'd like to ask everyone this question. I am currently maintain a
website which have hundreds of pages and lot of subdirectories. Most of
these pages contains a common function (let's call it "foo()" on top of
each of these pages. I've tried to use auto prepend and .htaccess to
prepend a file which contains an exact function foo() that is being
used on other pages.

I kept getting error "Cannot redeclare foo() in..." when I try to use
.htaccess and auto prepend feature. I've tried to remove foo() from
each page and use the foo() in the include file instead, but this
process take too much time. Is there anyway that I can tell PHP to
ignore the foo() function that is being redeclare in each page ? (I
know that I eventually have to remove foo() in every page).

Sorry for a lengthy question.

Thank you in advance,
Lazy Pig

There are at least two ways you could do this: Put the declaration of
foo() inside this if block, if( !function_exists('foo')) { .... }, so
the function is only parsed if it hasnt already been declared. Another
way is put if( defined('fufile') ) {return;} define('fufile',1); at the
top of the file foo() is declared in - it quickly exists the include'd
file when it is included a 2nd/3rd/... time.

Tim

[Tim Hunt]

la*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi !

Thank you for your response. I already tried the first method, but that
didn't work since auto prepend happened first, then the foo() function
in each page is being process next.

What do you mean "fufile" in your second method ? is it the include
file's name which contains foo() function ?

Thank you for your help,
Lazy Pig

Hmm sorry it wont work - I misread the problem, thought you were
including a file on every page and the included file contained foo(),
having the function foo() defined every page is very different and what
I suggested won't work.

fufile was just the name of a constant to record whether a file had
been included or not, it could have been anything.

Tim

[Tim Hunt]

la*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi !

Thank you for your response. I already tried the first method, but that
didn't work since auto prepend happened first, then the foo() function
in each page is being process next.

Try the first method but swap auto_prepend for auto_append..

Tim