Re: cold fusion to php conversion..

> >Cold fusion supports an 'application' structure by the inclusion of an > >application.cfm file. What this means is that this application.cfm file > >gets processed before any other .cfm file in that same directory, etc. > >Very useful for authentication, setting of global type variables, etc. > > PHP doesn't have anything built in to do *exactly* what you want to do on an > application-by-application basis. Instead, what you have to do is use > include (or require) within each page and put the path to this file. I > converted a CF application to PHP and I did it this way. I found the path > to the application.php file (as I called it) and then used this as a > variable within all of my pages. Worked really well. Not quite as easy as > within CF, but did the same job and was easy enough to strip in across all > my pages. Note that the PHP configuration directives auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file can be used to have PHP automatically include a file at the start or end of your document. Setting auto_prepend_file to your include file should be almost exactly equivalent to Cold Fusion's application.cfm.