How can a php class read from a properties file?

I have a class that calls some web services. I did not want the url of
the web services to be hardcoded in the class. What is the best way to
go about doing this?

Anthony Smith wrote:
> I have a class that calls some web services. I did not want the url of
> the web services to be hardcoded in the class. What is the best way to
> go about doing this?
>

Set the url as a property and initialize it via the constructor or a set
function (or give the ability to do both).

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On Jan 11, 9:24*pm, Anthony Smith <mrsmi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a class that calls some web services. I did not want the url of
> the web services to be hardcoded in the class. What is the best way to
> go about doing this?

Anthony, you could do this in a similar way to .Net, by using an
application configuration file.

The file can then be read in using parse_ini_file() -
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php

The same thing is sometimes done by storing configuration details in a
database, and reading those in at runtime.

Rob.

On Jan 15, 7:45 am, Rob <ratkin...@tbs-ltd.co.uk> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 9:24 pm,AnthonySmith<mrsmi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a class that calls some web services. I did not want the url of
> > the web services to be hardcoded in the class. What is the best way to
> > go about doing this?
>
> Anthony, you could do this in a similar way to .Net, by using an
> application configuration file.
>
> The file can then be read in using parse_ini_file() -http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php
>
> The same thing is sometimes done by storing configuration details in a
> database, and reading those in at runtime.
>
> Rob.

Thanks Rob. Exactly what I was looking for.