Re: define() or $variable for application settings?

From: Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:20:59 +0000
Subject: Re: define() or $variable for application settings?
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Hi Matt, I use define's. With variables it's easy to forget to global'ise it when you go into a function, define's don't have this issue. Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hello Everyone, I have a config.inc.php file which basically contains all the configuration info that the applications needs (directory/file locations, database credentials, etc). The information there is set using the define() function. However, I've seen some open-source projects which either use $variables or associative arrays to save the values. My application works pretty fine but I'd like to solicit opinions from everyone on what they are using in this case. Also, I have plans of putting up a sort of coding guidelines for the company so it might help to have other opinions on this one. Thanks and best regards, Matt


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