Re: reading and writing a config

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:15, David T-G wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I have a web page that is currently created statically but needs to be > dynamically updated. I'd like for the user to be able to type in content > in various places (name, contact phone, email, sales pitch, etcetc) and > then save that somehow and then build my page from it. > Whenever I run into a situation like this, I generally have the user create a XML file that my program parses (I wrote a generic XML parse class that comes in handy for this). The config file usually looks like this <category> <variable>value</variable> .. So for database configuration : <database> <host>localhost</host> etc. I find that users are more comfortable with this approach than PHP syntax because it reminds them of HTML. If the user is really green, I write a small script that displays a form where the user enters the values, then it generates the XML file that the rest of the script uses for settings, etc. -- Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com Please add a reply-to: header in your messages that points to the mailing list address so that all mail is properly archived and viewed.