Question

I once heard it’s good to have one class with all your application constants so that you have only one location with all your constants.

I Tried to do it this way:

class constants{     define('EH_MAILER',1); } 

and

 class constants{          const EH_MAILER =1;  } 

But both ways it doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

In the current version of PHP this is the way to do it:

class constants {    const EH_MAILER = 1; }  $mailer = constants::EH_MAILER 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.constants.php

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Starting with PHP 5.3 there’s better way to do it. Namespaces.

consts.php

<?php namespace constants const EH_MAILER = 1  ... 

other.php

<?php include_once(consts.php)  $mailer = \constants\EH_MAILER