I am relativley new with PHP. I have wamp installed and running. I have 34 webpages in my site but would like to have one file(include i think) set up to store the following variables.

$company = "Acme Inc.";
$addy1 = "349 Sample Drive";
$addy2 = " Somewhereville, CA 49304";
$phone = "555-555-1234";

in all of my pages, im just going to do the following in the footer
<div id="footer">
<ul>
<?php echo: " <li>"."$company"."<li>"."$addy... ?php>
</ul>

1) What extension to i give this global file(include file?).
2) Where is the best place to store this file securily?
3) What code should i put in my php files to link to this global variable(include?) file.

Thanks for helping

I am not at the mysql database stage yet

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1. .php (data.php)
2. includes folder
3. <?php include("./includes/data.php"); ?> (put this before echoing data)

Ok to elaborate on above just encase...

footer.php =
<?php
$company = "Acme Inc.";
$addy1 = "349 Sample Drive";
$addy2 = " Somewhereville, CA 49304";
$phone = "555-555-1234";
?>


<div id="footer">
<ul>
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
<?php echo: " <li>"."$company"."<li>"."$addy... ?>
</ul>