phplib-users

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Layne W. <la...@dr...>]

Marko,

I use config files for each separate instance of the app. The config
file defines several constants that are then used throughout the
app. The directory structure looks like:

base/
    docs/
    includes/
    setup/
        configs/
            instance_1/
            instance_2/
    templates/


The database part of the config file looks like:

define("_DATABASE", "database_name");
define("_DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("_DB_USER", "username");
define("_DB_PASS", "password");


The config file is symlinked to the includes directory and it is
prepended from there before local.inc.

--=20

Layne Weathers

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Marko K. <mk...@mc...>]

Hi,

anybody met the problem before to get the path without the symbolic link 
resolved. I use dirname(__FILE__) to get the absolute path on my server, 
but unfortunately the dirname already resolves symbolic links. This makes 
things trickyer.

Is there a way to get the true symbolic link as path using PHP functions?

Marko

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Marko K. <mk...@mc...>]

sorry, typo, I meant "realpath" instead of "dirname" in my previous post:
so that it looks like this:

	dirname(realpath(__FILE__)) 

to get the absolute path on my server. But I get the symlink already 
resolved.

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Layne W. <la...@dr...>]

>Is there a way to get the true symbolic link as path using PHP
>functions?

Not that I know of. I use a very small include file to get the path
and make a real copy of that in each project. After that the other
files can be symlinks.

--=20

Layne Weathers

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Marko K. <mk...@mc...>]

> Not that I know of. I use a very small include file to get the path
> and make a real copy of that in each project. After that the other
> files can be symlinks.
I see, thanks for the hint!
I'll try to set something like that up.
Marko

Re: [phplib-users] proper way to run several instances of a phplib-app

[Marko K. <mk...@mc...>]

Hi Layne,

> The config file is symlinked to the includes directory and it is
> prepended from there before local.inc.
but how does every single instance decide which config directory to use?
There should be a parameter given to the application somehow. Do you use a 
GET-Parameter in the entry-URL?

Marko