Re: Question about best practices with regard to site structure and include/include_path

Please disregard my question for now. I found a bunch of new information which I think might provide the answer and save you guys the keystrokes. I will follow up with what I find. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:02 AM, George Wilson <rmwscbt@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > I apologize if this email is really long. I manage a code base which > has been maintained by at least 5 lead developers over the last 3 > years- all coming from different backgrounds and approaches. Moral of > the story- it is a scary ugly mess of a code base. I am in the process > of refactoring the site to make things cleaner and more organized with > the eventual goal of assuming an MVC or similar flavored OO > architecture but that is a long term goal. I have about 485 source > files to work with total. > > Here is the question. Step one in my plan is to reorganize everything > and to centralize all of the site configuration. Eventually I will > move to using namespaces and autoloaders but for now I am required to > stick with include/requires. I am weighing out the costs and benefits > of using include/require with absolute paths defined vs. using > set_include_path. > > My very strong inclination is to use set_include_path and specifify a > configuration folder (which I have already started using) and have > every script include a script which points to that. I was wondering if > there are any potential issues I should remain mindful of. I ask > because as I have been looking into this feature, I see a lot of > conflicting information regarding best practices. Here are the > parameters I have to work with (for better or worse): > > 1) I am not permitted to use a .htaccess file per department policy- I > may be able to set a path variable in httpd.conf but kinda want to > avoid it since server configurations make management very nervous. > 2) Namespaces, while a long term goal, are not feasible right now > 3) The directory structure will change in time, I need a solution > which refactors cleanly and safely (dynamically is nice too) > > Thank you in advance.