Question

I change between localhost and remote host dev: I test it on localhost and then I copy the files to remote in php.

I have one class MYDB which stores the host and user-db info in constants.
How can I declare the constants and write MYDB so that I do not have to switch manually between these two access dates.Instead, I want to switch automatically.
I use:

host: localhost
user: timo
db: localhostdb
pwd: ...

 host: remotehostname
 user: timo
 db: remotehostdb
  pwd:..

Before I switch to localhost, I comment the remote host and vice versa. This is not good.
Any idea ?
Timo

Answer 1

About good. Some other approaches

1. Some people maintain different files between production and local testing
2. You could wrap the code around if($production) .. else ….. Then set that production variable automatically. e.g. we do it based on the URL. If the URL is production URL, then the $production is set to production.