The problem with making it dynamic, is that you've just made it
AWFULLY easy for some Bad Guy to inject their own PHP file into your
system...
Think about that for awhile.
On Tue, June 13, 2006 5:22 am, Dave M G wrote:
> PHP List,
>
> Up until now, in order to get all the functions and classes I need in
> my
> scripts, I have always made a file called "includes.php" that contains
> a
> series of include() statements for all of the files that I want to
> include. Then I just include that one file at the top of all my PHP
> scripts.
>
> This system works okay, but I thought it would be better to have a
> consistent naming standard, and use some kind wild card or loop to
> include all the files I want. That way I can change, add, and remove
> files a little easier.
>
> All the files I want to include end with either ".class", or with
> "_fns.php". ("fns" stands for "functions".)
>
> It seems that wildcard characters are not supported in the include()
> function. Some experiments and a search on the web seem to confirm
> this.
>
> So then I thought what I need to do is use the readdir() function
> somehow, and make an array of all files ending in ".class" or
> "_fns.php", and then make a while or foreach loop to include every
> required file.
>
> I couldn't quite figure out how to do that, but in any case I wondered
> if running this loop at the start of every single PHP script might be
> unnecessary overhead. After all, the list of included files will only
> change when I work on the system. It's not going to vary at all based
> on
> any kind of user input or in standard usage of my web site.
>
> What would be the recommended way of including files that will change
> as
> I work on the system? Do most people create a function to detect the
> included files, or do most people make a static list that they edit by
> hand?
>
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