Hi I do exactly this on servers running several hundred sites. each site has a single file in the root, with any local config and a variable $inc_root set. eg <?php $config_var1 = 'xyz'; $config_var2 = 'xyz'; $inc_root = '/home/sites/shared_stuff/'; //must be an absulute not relative address ?> all files are then referenced as include($inc_root.'directory/sub_directory/file_i_want.php') If you move things a lot you could link each site to a single file which sets the $inc_root, so you only change one file. HTH Peter -----Original Message----- From: mike [mailto:mikec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 13 November 2003 14:42 To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: using code for multiple sites I currently manage several websites that share the same code. This code is included into many of the pages on every site. I have duplicate copies of the code set up in each virtual host directory. Obviously this wastes space on my server and wastes my time having to update them all. I was looking for suggestions on the best way to be able to access these php files through includes for each site. A couple of the options that I have already looked into were- I could put the code all into one directory for site A and when I want to include these files I would have to include the full path to the files I really don't want to have to do this because I frequently move things and I would have to change the path on each file. either put these files into .:/usr/local/lib/php or create a directory called "inc" in /usr/local/apache and then add the following line to php.ini include_path = ".:/usr/local/apache/inc " I hope I made it clear what I want to accomplish. If you could give your recommendations I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Calvelage Webmaster / Sales Associate Viper Systems _.·´¯`·.¸¸->vipersystems.biz <http://www.vipersystems.biz/> <-¸¸.·´¯`·._ mikec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 419-224-8344 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
