Re: auto_prepend/append: does the PHP engine cache the

derick@php.net wrote:

It would indeed more efficient, but PHP reparses and executes the auto_prepend/auto_append files every time a script is started.

Shucks ... I take it that you are familiar enough with the source so that I can take this to be a pretty definitive answer? If so ... maybe you can suggest something to me then? I find myself including() the same constants.inc file in all my scripts, is there a way to declare static constants that remain even when a script exits? (I am using PHP as an Apache module). If this is possible I can even see myself defining() some constants to be chunks of static HTML that I am also often including() in pages ... Thanks for the info! Jc