Re: Config recursion error

<mike@blueroot.net> wrote : > I have just updated to config-1.0beta and am testing it with this > > require("Config.php"); > $this->config =& new Config("iniFile"); > $content =& $this->config->parseConfig("c:\application\config.ini"); > print_r($content); > > There is some kind of error in the generation of the config object - this > code outputs > > config_container_inifile Object > ( > [type] => section > [name] => root > [content] => > [children] => Array > ( > [0] => config_container_inifile Object > ( > [type] => directive > [name] => app_width > [content] => 600 > [children] => > [parent] => config_container_inifile Object > ( > [type] => section > [name] => root > [content] => > [children] => Array > *RECURSION* > [parent] => <snip> > the test ini file is just > > [] > app_width = 600 > app_height = 400 > > [modules] > testModule = 1 > testModule2 = 1 Because Config works with trees of objects, it is normal to get *RECURSION* when doing a var_dump or a print_r. PHP is clever in the way it displays its dumps. If it wasn't that good, it could endlessly display the dump because in every children there is a reference to its parent. Instead, it displays *RECURSION*. Why have such a reference ? Because we need to know at which index in its parent a child object is, for removes, inserts... And the only way to know this is (1) keep track of every object index in a separate array (sort of a directory) (2) have a reference to the child's parent in the child itself. I choose (2) because it's more fun. But I thought about those users like me and you who use var_dump() quite often. There is a toArray() method that should display some kind of dump when used with var_dump : var_dump($content->toArray()); Anyway, thanks for the feedback, don't hesitate to report any other bugs or malfunction. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam