Re: PEAR::Config question

Hi Bertrand, thanks for your help and your explanations. I changed the way I use config. Now I include the php config file in my scripts and I only use PEAR::Config in the modification function. Unfortunatly you showed me how to save the config in another format but you did not show me how to write my modified array back to the same file. In fact I would like to understand how to do this simple thing : - Load the PHP file containing a $conf array - Changing some $conf values - Writing the $conf array( with the modified values) in the PHP file <--- that's the point I am missing I already know how to do the other ones ;-) Regards Jean-Marc "Bertrand Mansion" <bmansion@mamasam.com> wrote in message news:BAFCE1D1.870A%bmansion@mamasam.com... <webmaster@dyingculture.net> wrote : > Hi Bertrand, > >> You are probably not using the class correctly. > > That's what I think too :-) > >> If you want more help, post some code reproducing the problem so I can > have a look. > > Ok here it is : > > This part is in a file that is automatically prepended to every script: > require_once('Config.php'); > $configuration = new Config; > //$root =& > $configuration->parseConfig("../includes/configuration_{$media}.xml", > 'xml'); > $root =& > $configuration->parseConfig("../includes/configuration_{$media}.php", > 'phparray', array('name' => 'conf')); > $conf = $root->toArray(); > $conf = $conf['root']['configuration']; > unset($root); > > then I change some value in the $conf array and I use the following function > to save the configuration file. (I do this because I have many forms for > manipulating the configuration values) > > function sauver_configuration() > { > global $configuration; > global $conf; > $temp = new Config; > $tableau = array(); > $tableau['configuration'] = $conf; > $root =& $temp->parseConfig($tableau, 'phparray'); > $configuration->setRoot($root); > return $configuration->writeConfig('testy.xml', 'xml'); // I save to another > file for testing purposes but am I obliged to specify the filename if it is > the same file from which we read the values ? > } > > I think this is quite a bad way to use the class but I found no real help in > the exampls and the documentation. Indeed, it's messy. ;) 1. Config is a bit expensive, so you should use it mostly when you need to manipulate configuration data, not to read them only, unless you use a cache engine. The idea is to generate the configuration file with Config and once it is configured, just read it using php functions like parse_ini_file(), arrays, etc. Knowing that ini files are read faster then any other type of configurations, even arrays (but offer less features too). 2. You can convert directly from a format to another using the Config package, there is no need to manipulate the array yourself. Config is actually a tree of containers that can be of type directive, section, comment and blank. So you manipulate Config like any other trees. In your case, something like that could do: $configuration = new Config(); $configuration->parseConfig("conf_{media}.php", 'phparray'); $configuration->writeConfig("conf_{media}.xml", 'xml'); Now, if you want to be more specific: $configuration = new Config(); $root =& $configuration->parseConfig("conf_{media}.php", 'phparray'); $mysection &= $root->getItem('section', 'mysection'); $newconfig = new Config(); $root =& $newconfig->getRoot(); $root->addItem($mysection); $newconfig->writeConfig("conf_mysection.xml", 'xml'); Bertrand Mansion Mamasam