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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Initializing constants once, with code?
From: weirdan@gmail.com (Bruce Weirdan)

There's also a fourth approach that does not involve any changes to
PHP: autoload + eval.
When PHP is looking for your class, in your autoload you load the
values from config, generate the class source and eval() it.