How can we check if we are running the PHP script on localhost?
Is there a way to check if we are running a PHP script on localhost - development server or on live server - production server? Is there any PHP constant, variable, function,etc that can give me this information.
I need this to put different settings for production and development server. Now I parse the URL to see which one it is but I was wondering s there any better way to do that. My concern is that we may change the URL of the script and that may ruin my check.
I am looking few a solution with one config file and IF condition in it depending on which I will define different settings. The only problem is that I do not want to change the IF statement when there are changes on the server settings like hostname, document_root or something else that I am using to identify local/remote host.
And want to SVN update from one source without changing anything to my production server.
And I would like ideally to be able to run and CRON jobs with these settings.
Answer
I use the SetEnv in my host definition to locate on which environment i am running (Dev, Stage, Production) :
<VirtualHost *:80>
(all the host info)
SetEnv SERVER_CONTEXT "dev"
</VirtualHost>
And each config file as an extra word in it : config.dev.ini, config.stage.ini, config.prod.ini, etc, ... It works like a charm.