Constant or Variable?

[Raven]

Opinions please. I'd like to hear the pro's and con's of

define('BASENAME',dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

or

$basename = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

I know that one pro is that the constant can't be changed which is my
ultimate goal, but I solicit your comments.

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[Jan Pieter Kunst]

Raven wrote:

Opinions please. I'd like to hear the pro's and con's of

define('BASENAME',dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

or

$basename = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

I know that one pro is that the constant can't be changed which is my
ultimate goal, but I solicit your comments.

A tiny little 'con' might be that you can do

"long string $basename long string"

with a variable, but you must do

'long string ' . BASENAME . ' long string'

with the constant.

But I really don't think that is important.

A pro is that constants are global: with a variable you must do:

$basename = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

function blah() {
global $basename;

... $basename ...
}

but with a constant you do:

define('BASENAME',dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

function blah() {

... BASENAME ...
}

JP

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