On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
I'm curious, is there a reason readini is not used for config files
in general?
Is it that much faster to include the config.php file as opposed to
using readini?
You mean parse_ini_file, right? http://php.net/parse_ini_file
Ini files are more readable than php... but sometimes I think it's
nice to have the flexibility of php in my config files to be able to
put a little php in them... I guess what I'm thinking it more akin to
the bootstrap file concept.
Parse_ini_file is part of the core php code, so it's probably pretty
fast. A pure PHP implementation would surely be too slow. I would
guess the performance difference with parse_ini_file (if significant)
isn't reason enough to not use it if you prize readability... then
again... maybe it's worth taking it one step farther and installing
syck and the pecl ext/syck extension so you can read/write YAML:
http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/syck/
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2585-Using-YAML-With-PHP-and-PECL
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