Re: including files outside of document root

On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:17 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 8:09 PM, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: >> Nothing peeves me more than some badly-conceived web-app with no way >> to move the include files out of the web-tree. > > You may disagree with me on this here, Rich, but the way I do it > is to have a single include_files.php file containing all of the files > that need to be included as a whole, and a single configuration > variable to set where those files are located. I know that they don't > all have to be included in that file, but I find it makes it easier, > since I use all of them with every page load. Can I put that include_files.php outside the web-tree as well? Or is the rest of your application bypassing include_path to force it to be inside the web-tree? > I also employ a function safe_include($filename) that uses a > combination of file_exists($filename), is_file($filename), and > is_readable($filename). If the function fails, no PHP error message > is output if the file can't be found, and the script doesn't > necessarily halt. If it's a critical file, instead a message is > dispatched to my email, and a friendly message is placed on the site > informing the user that a technical error has been encountered and > will be repaired ASAP. This sounds nifty for your own clients, but I don't think it would work well for, say, BB or Cake or phpMyAdmin... I'm pretty sure the authors of those don't want an email from every broken install... :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?