Re: Config files: what is best? (was: Re: [PHP] XML... Useful or another layer of complexity?)
| From: | Peter Lind | Date: | Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:44:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Config files: what is best? (was: Re: [PHP] XML... Useful or another layer of complexity?) | ||
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On 3 April 2011 21:41, Andre Polykanine <andre@oire.org> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Just because you mentioned config files.
> What would you suggest me as better format for them? Database is not
> available yet since I need to make a config file before creating a
> database.
For config files I would suggest plain text config files - in the style of
key = value
php has built-in functions for reading those, so parsing them is very
fast and easy. See
http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php
Regards
Peter
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