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PHP classes and file includes

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  9 months ago

  by tripster

  Steven O'Donnell

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 1 year ago

   Hi guys and girls,

   I've ran into a problem with PHP, I'm a C++ programmer by trade but a certain contract requires I use PHP.  However my problem is as follows:

   I'm trying to seperate all the PHP logic from inline (I know class constructs etc will still need to be inline) to make it more manageable - however I'm wanting to store global parameters in a global.inc.php file i.e. database server, username, password etc etc and include this in a MyClass.class.php file so the constructor of the class can access these - but it doesn't seem possible.  I've heard that this isn't a feature in PHP?!?!?!?!

  My directory structure looks something like:
  

  • ROOT
    • classes
      • MyClass.class.php (the class wanting to use the global.inc.php)

        </li>
      

    • config
      • globals.inc.php (contains the global config files for this site)

        </li>
      

    • admin.php

   And so in the MyClass.class.php I have

  include("../config/globals.inc.php")

  but it doesn't seem to work...

  Is there some other way around this? Before you answer please bear in mind that the server is many miles away and I have NO access to the php.ini file.

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