php global includes?

[JGH]

Isn't there some way to include some php code every time a php script is
run without having to put an include statement in the script?

All I want to do is set the ORACLE_HOME environmental variable on a
development machine. The servers have it compiled into php and it's
different on different machines. So programmers using the development
platform shouldn't have to set ORACLE_HOME.

I've been browsing the php documentation and doing google searches for an
hour already. I thought there was a config file somewhere where you could
put some php code and it would be run every time a script is run.

Did I dream that?

[Andy Hassall]

Re: php global includes?

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 21:14:14 +0000 (UTC), JGH <johnheim@nospa m.tds.net> wrote:
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>Isn't there some way to include some php code every time a php script is
>run without having to put an include statement in the script?[/color]

Yes. auto_prepend_fi le configuration variable.
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>All I want to do is set the ORACLE_HOME environmental variable on a
>development machine. The servers have it compiled into php and it's
>different on different machines. So programmers using the development
>platform shouldn't have to set ORACLE_HOME.[/color]

Wouldn't that be best set in your Apache startup script, or even /etc/profile
(or equivalent) per machine? Unless it's in exactly the same path on every
development machine... perhaps your development environment is well enough
regimented to guarantee the location though.
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>I've been browsing the php documentation and doing google searches for an
>hour already. I thought there was a config file somewhere where you could
>put some php code and it would be run every time a script is run.
>
>Did I dream that?[/color]

auto_prepend_fi le with a putenv() call is the closest match to what you're
asking, as far as I'm aware.

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[JGH]

Re: php global includes?

Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co. uk> wrote in[color=blue]
> Wouldn't that be best set in your Apache startup script, or even
> /etc/profile
> (or equivalent) per machine? Unless it's in exactly the same path on
> every development machine... perhaps your development environment is
> well enough regimented to guarantee the location though.[/color]


Well, maybe I should have asked that question first.

This works:

<?php
putenv("ORACLE_ HOME=" . getenv("ORACLE_ HOME"));
$conn = OCILogon ('username', 'password, 'host);
OCIdisconnect ($conn);
?>

But it doesn't work without the putenv (getenv()). I get the standard
message indicating that it gives when ORACLE_HOME is not set.

Warning: ocilogon(): _oci_open_serve r: Error while trying to retrieve
text for error ORA-12154 in /home/jhe/public_html/index.php on line 17


So even though I can getenv ORACLE_HOME, I still have to putenv it
before OCI will work. This seems to be standard behavior unless you
compile php with ORACLE_HOME.

[CJ Llewellyn]

Re: php global includes?

"JGH" <johnheim@nospa m.tds.net> wrote in message
news:cjkhb6$cnd $1@news.doit.wi sc.edu...[color=blue]
> Isn't there some way to include some php code every time a php script is
> run without having to put an include statement in the script?
>
> All I want to do is set the ORACLE_HOME environmental variable on a
> development machine. The servers have it compiled into php and it's
> different on different machines. So programmers using the development
> platform shouldn't have to set ORACLE_HOME.
>
> I've been browsing the php documentation and doing google searches for an
> hour already. I thought there was a config file somewhere where you could
> put some php code and it would be run every time a script is run.[/color]

php.ini

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.data-handling.php#ini.auto-prepend-file