Re: Discussion of method -- config files

At 8:07 AM -0400 6/20/08, Al wrote:

I freely use defined constants for all fixed variables in my config file. It insures they cannot be inadvertently reassigned by a function someplace and are available everywhere. define('MYSQL_HOST',"localhost");

Constants are a good solution for this, but I hate UPPERCASE (I'm not postal). :-) I may go against convention and use lowercase and start constants with an underscore, something like this: define('_dbname', 'subscribers'); After all, variables start with a "$", so why can't constants start with "_ "? That seems kind of symmetrical to me. Opinions, possible problems, advice? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com