How to set a custom global from .htaccess

Question

Is there a way to set a custom variable from within .htaccess so that every php script can then read from it ? I went googling around nothing.

Thankyou!

Answer 1

You can only set an environment variable from .htaccess:

SetEnv MYVAR whatever

And this becomes available in the $_SERVER array:

print $_SERVER["MYVAR"];

So, not exactly a global variable. But still useful for some purposes.

(The other option is declaring an auto_prepend_file to pre-define variables. But that's more a workaround then.)

Answer 2

You can set environment variables in .htaccess (or http.conf):

SetEnv foo bar

and access them in PHP via

$_ENV['foo']