How to include configuration data

[Rutger Claes]

How do you import for example your database username, hostname etc. With a
PHP named config.php file saying:
$conf['db']['username'] = ...
This is the way it is usualy done. But could you do it with XML (afraid of
the performance hit) or with a ini file;
My main concerns are: security, performance and ease of use.

What have you tried and found usefull?

Rutger
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[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: How to include configuration data

*** Rutger Claes wrote/escribió (Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:19:39 +0100):[color=blue]
> This is the way it is usualy done. But could you do it with XML (afraid of
> the performance hit) or with a ini file;
> My main concerns are: security, performance and ease of use.[/color]

If you use an *.ini file you already have a core function to handle it:

Usage: array parse_ini_file ( string filename [, bool process_section s] )
Purpose: Parse a configuration file
Availability: PHP 4

I don't know much about XML.

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