Re: Forcing auto_prepend_file to work regardless of what document was accessed

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Sat, October 22, 2005 11:25 pm, Dan Trainor wrote:

Anyone know if it's possible to use auto_prepend_file to force the appending of a file to the request, regardless of what kind of document is generated? I can see this being a problem if the document was a picture or a video or some such - but is thre a hidden argument list to auto_prepend_file where I can force inclusion of this file, if x, y, and z document types were requested?

Not the way you describe it, but... In .htaccess, put: <Files .xyz> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> Now all your .xyz files ARE PHP files. auto_prepend will happen. PHP will "parse" the files but do nothing unless they happen to contain the character combination <?php (or <? or <?= if you have short_tags on) This may or may not be suitable in your environment.

This would be a great solution, and I'm sure my concern is something that's been discussed many times on this list - I'm worried about the performance hit that the machine would take, if/when parsing a large number of files, in this manner. For small sites, I have no problem adding .html, .htm and friends to PHP's own AddType. But I'm not so sure for larger sites. I'll browse the archive for info and data, and weigh my options. Thanks -dant