Comments on: Using a PHP Class to Store Configuration

By: HiSoRange

HiSoRange — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:57:31 +0000

it deleted the “\re\turn \arr\ay( ‘host’ =\>” without slashes ofc

By: HiSoRange

HiSoRange — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:55:43 +0000

If you want to make simplier then use $_ENV['DB_HOST']. If you want it to make more practical like you don’t wana or can’t step in ftp to the site then put configurations into editable form, yaml and xml nice but need to be parsed what is unnecessay most of time, use nativ php source

‘localhost’, ‘user’ => ‘me’ );

and call it with

function config( $ns )
{
return ( object ) include( ‘path/to/config/dir/’ . strtr( $ns, ‘.’, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ) . ‘.php’ );

}

and you can have something like this

config( ‘system.database’ )->host;
$dbconf = config( ‘system.database’ );

But Config\DB_HOST cool it’s age of namespaces anyway.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:31:30 +0000

Why? Parsing an external data structure or accessing a database would add lots of unnecessary overhead. You’d have to examine your requirements to determine if that would be worth it.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:09:55 +0000

It would be better to put configuration information in a yaml file or xml file or even in a database.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:46:54 +0000

Well the use of a class is meant to solve the namespace issues. You could choose to use an array in the class, but the idea is the same. XML can be used for persistent storage, but you’d still need a place to store the data at runtime.

By: awake

awake — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:01:43 +0000

is this really useful? is it not better to use XML or arrays, just tasking