Comments on: Ini files. The New (Old) Way to Configure Your Web Application http://jaybill.com/2009/01/06/ini-files-the-new-old-way-to-configure-your-web-application/ Jaybill McCarthy's blog. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:50:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jaybill McCarthy http://jaybill.com/2009/01/06/ini-files-the-new-old-way-to-configure-your-web-application/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Jaybill McCarthy Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:36:55 +0000 http://jaybill.com/?p=344#comment-313 @ Binny V A - I think that really rides the line of "easily editable by non-developer humans". ;) That approach also makes it impossible to recover from an error in the configuration. Because you're making the configuration essentially part of the code, a syntax error is going to stop the interpreter with no way to recover. If I parse an INI file, I can check to see if it's valid and act accordingly. @ Binny V A – I think that really rides the line of “easily editable by non-developer humans”. ;) That approach also makes it impossible to recover from an error in the configuration. Because you’re making the configuration essentially part of the code, a syntax error is going to stop the interpreter with no way to recover. If I parse an INI file, I can check to see if it’s valid and act accordingly.

]]> By: Binny V A http://jaybill.com/2009/01/06/ini-files-the-new-old-way-to-configure-your-web-application/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Binny V A Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:55:09 +0000 http://jaybill.com/?p=344#comment-312 IMO, a simpler option is to use PHP itself to create the configuration file... config.php 'localhost', 'db_username' => 'root', ... ); ?> And it can be 'parsed' with just... require('config.php'); IMO, a simpler option is to use PHP itself to create the configuration file…

config.php
‘localhost’,
‘db_username’ => ‘root’,
…
);
?>

And it can be ‘parsed’ with just…
require(‘config.php’);

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