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From: "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
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Subject: Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:33:40 +0100
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Am 22.03.2013 09:38, schrieb The Frog:
> Thankyou once again Aho. I was hoping to avoid using sessions as the basis. I was
> thinking more on the lines of a global constant that applies across the entire site.
> Such as making available the logins etc for the backend DB. I don't know if this is
> safe to do in PHP but I am hoping a more knowledgeable person might.
> 

Like JS said. You normally have a config file that is included in every script. It
should be outside of document root, or in a subdirectory where the web server has no
access (security).

But of course you have session variables as well, but for a different goal: to record
the data of a particular user session.

/Str.