dolphin/methods-and-how-to/index-file.php

<?php

/**
 *  dolphin. Collection of useful PHP skeletons.
 *  Copyright (C) 2013  Johannes 'Banana' Keßler
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the
 * COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) Version 1.0
 * along with this program.  If not, see http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html
 */

/**
 * this is an example index file. All requests should go through this file.
 */

# the internal encoding should be set to utf-8
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

# the default timezone should be set everytime. Otherwise a warning will be throuwn
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');

# magic quotes are evil. make sure they are disabled
if(ini_get("magic_quotes_gpc") == 1)
	die('Magic quotes is set to "on", and system is not able to change it. Please update Your php.ini file');

# some constans which are use everywhere
define('DEBUG', true);

# display debug messages or not
if(DEBUG === true) {
	ini_set('error_reporting',-1); // E_ALL & E_STRICT
	ini_set('display_errors',true);
}
else {
	# this is the setting for productive enviroment.
	# error messages ONLY visible in testing enviroment
	# otherwise they are a security risk
	ini_set('error_reporting',-1); // E_ALL & E_STRICT
	ini_set('display_errors',false);
	ini_set('log_errors',true);
	ini_set('log_errors_max_len',"10M");
	ini_set('error_log','path/to/error/error.file');
}

# header information which should be set before making any output
# those are sepcial for html output
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
header("Date: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", time())." GMT");
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", time())." GMT");

# anti cache header
# those headers will desiable any cache
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");

# any ouput after this line

?>