OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Tom King
Hi All, Sorry for the OT: I'm new to PHP, and am trying to find out if there is the equivalent of application.cfc onrequest() function: I.e, I want to be able to do this, without having to put the includes in every file: cffunction name=onrequest cfargument name=targetpage''

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
02 11:35:43 2007 Subject: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc Hi All, Sorry for the OT: I'm new to PHP, and am trying to find out if there is the equivalent of application.cfc onrequest() function: I.e, I want to be able to do this, without having to put the includes in every file

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Hey Tom - It's been a couple of years (like 5), but as of PHP 4, there was a setting in php.ini that allowed you to define a file that would be called before every request the way Application.cfm is called. You have to define it explicitly, but it behaves exactly the same way, in my experience.

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Tom King
That sounds like the sort of thing I'm after... Will now have to see if I can get to the ini file on shared hosting :( T On 2 Mar 2007, at 13:01, Rob Wilkerson wrote: Hey Tom - It's been a couple of years (like 5), but as of PHP 4, there was a setting in php.ini that allowed you to define

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Tom King wrote: I.e, I want to be able to do this, without having to put the includes in every file: Every PHP app I've looked at has an include_once() at the top of each file :-/ -- Tom Chiverton Helping to augmentatively transition revolutionary segments On:

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Wilkerson
That could work (as would the related require_once() function), but it's maintenance-intensive since it has to be explicitly included on every page. Look at the auto_prepend_file directive in php.ini (I looked it up and I think that's what I was referring to in my earlier post). If you need

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Rob Wilkerson wrote: That could work (as would the related require_once() function), but it's maintenance-intensive since it has to be explicitly included on every page. OTTOMH: find . -name '*.php' -exec cp {} {}.1;cat header.php {}.1 {} \; :-) -- Tom Chiverton

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Ugh. :-) On 3/2/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Rob Wilkerson wrote: That could work (as would the related require_once() function), but it's maintenance-intensive since it has to be explicitly included on every page. OTTOMH: find . -name '*.php' -exec

Re: OT: php equivalent of application.cfc

2007-03-02 Thread Tom King
hehe, so glad I don't have to deal with this on a regular basis - thanks for the tips! T On 2 Mar 2007, at 14:05, Rob Wilkerson wrote: Ugh. :-) On 3/2/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Rob Wilkerson wrote: That could work (as would the related