Appending to the include_path

[Gordon]

Is it possible in, say, a .htaccess file, to append additional paths
to the php include_path without knowing what the value of include_path
is beforehand? I want to add an absolute path to a directory and it's
subdirectories from a .htaccess file, but I don't want to have to
encode the entire current value of it and append my own path as that
would mean having to change it every time it changes in php.ini or the
code is deployed on a different server.

[Jeff]

Gordon wrote:

Is it possible in, say, a .htaccess file, to append additional paths
to the php include_path without knowing what the value of include_path
is beforehand? I want to add an absolute path to a directory and it's
subdirectories from a .htaccess file, but I don't want to have to
encode the entire current value of it and append my own path as that
would mean having to change it every time it changes in php.ini or the
code is deployed on a different server.

I suppose everyone works differently. I always have a site config file
that I include on every page. This has all the site or project specific
paths and functions in it. I usually put the database handle in this
also. That way when I want to move this code to a new server or domain,
I just change the paths and the database settings in this common config
file.

Jeff

[C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)]

On Aug 1, 9:57 am, Gordon <[e-mail]:

Is it possible in, say, a .htaccess file, to append additional paths
to the php include_path without knowing what the value of include_path
is beforehand? I want to add an absolute path to a directory and it's
subdirectories from a .htaccess file, but I don't want to have to
encode the entire current value of it and append my own path as that
would mean having to change it every time it changes in php.ini or the
code is deployed on a different server.

AFAIK, no.

However, you could set an auto-prepend in the htaccess file which
reads the current value and then sets a new value including the
original.

Personally, I usually go with having a standard lib required in every
file which searches the current dir then up through the dir hierarchy
till it finds a file with a particular name (e.g.
'ht_php_conf.inc.php') and requires it if found. The overhead for this
is surprisingly small compared with requiring a file with a pre-
declared path.

C.

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro?= G. Vicario]

*** Gordon escribió/wrote (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:57:59 -0700 (PDT)):

Is it possible in, say, a .htaccess file, to append additional paths
to the php include_path without knowing what the value of include_path
is beforehand? I want to add an absolute path to a directory and it's
subdirectories from a .htaccess file, but I don't want to have to
encode the entire current value of it and append my own path as that
would mean having to change it every time it changes in php.ini or the
code is deployed on a different server.

You can always do it in PHP itself:

<?php

echo 'Before: ' . ini_get('include_path') . "\n";
include('file_in_foo.php');

ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path') . ';C:\\Foo');

echo 'After: ' . ini_get('include_path') . "\n";
include('file_in_foo.php');

?>
If you don't have a general configuration file in your site where you can
place this stuff, you could even use the auto_append_file PHP directive to
automatically include a script.

Just make sure you don't get lost; it happens pretty often with automagic.

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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro?= G. Vicario]

*** Álvaro G. Vicario escribió/wrote (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:03:32 +0200):

If you don't have a general configuration file in your site where you can
place this stuff, you could even use the auto_append_file PHP directive to
automatically include a script.

Sorry, typo: it's auto_prepend_file; I copy-pasted the wrong line...

http://es.php.net/manual/en/ini.core...o-prepend-file
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