Accessing central php file, different domains, same server

[someone785]

Ok so if anyone can help even a tiny bit, that would be awesome:

 

I host for many clients and they all use a custom CMS that I created for their site so they can login and edit stuff. For many of these clients, various files are the exact same(like the login screen, traffic page, etc) and since I have 30+ clients, when I make changes to one of those common pages, the current method is to ftp connect to all 30 sites individually and upload the new file. As you may know, that's a huge pain. All of these sites are on my server(shared server) but the domains are all different.

 

Based on what I described, is there a way that these common php files can be accessed from one central file and then I can update 1 file and each client would see the changes to the corresponding file on their domain?

[Ch0cu3r]

Not sure but you could add the common files into one folder on your server. Now add that folder to your include_path making the common files globally accessible.

 

Alternatively setup a cron job and create a script which checks to see if one of the common files has changed. It'll then download and replace the updated file automatically.

Edited January 3, 2014 by Ch0cu3r

[someone785]

Not sure but you could add the common files into one folder on your server. Now add that folder to your include_path making the common files globally accessible.

 

Alternatively setup a cron job and create a script which checks to see if one of the common files has changed. It'll then download and replace the updated file automatically.

Thank you for your suggestion. I wasn't aware of being able to make a file globally accessible. In the event that I was to add a 2nd server, and thus some domains would be on 1 server and some would be on another, would that ruin the "globally accessible" idea?