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[Anthony Baratta]

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<tip type="ASP - Storing your constants file" author="Anthony Baratta">

I usually have three sites for every big project we do; Dev, Test, Live. 
Having three different physical directories and URLs can be a pain in the 
butt to work with in code. So I create a constants file that lives "one 
directory up" from the web root directory.

e.g.

	/projectone/live/active
	/projectone/dev/active
	/projectone/test/active

In each of these directories, 	/projectone/dev, /projectone/test, 
/projectone/live, I store a master constants file. Within this file I put 
all the site specific information that would change based upon whether the 
site is live or not.

Things like: Mail Addresses, DB Connection Strings, the URL, Control 
Switches/Variables (for things like checking for SSL, which the non-live 
sites don't need), etc.

The benefit here is that you don't need to make code changes when you move 
dev/test to live and the important stuff like DB Connection Strings are not 
in the web root.

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Anthony Baratta
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