Question

OK, this is an odd request, and it might not even be fully true… but I’m upgrading someone’s system … and they are using OSCommerce (from a long time ago).

It appears their variables are referrenced without a dollar sign in front of them (which is new to me). I haven’t done PHP in about 7 years, and I’ve always used dollar signs.

Is there a setting that I can throw in PHP 5 that says to assume these are variables?

Example:

mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_UserName, DB_Password); 

in my day, that would be:

mysql_connect($DB_Server, etc, etc); 

Their site has THOUSANDS of files… no I don’t want to go put dollar signs in front of everything.

HELP!

Thanks,

Answer 1

I believe OSCommerce actually DEFINES these values, so the usage is correct (without the $).

Look for

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

or something similar.

In other words, do not go through and update these with a $ before if they’re actually defined constants.