[Bobs-devel] admin config: php class or ini file?

[Joe z. <jz...@at...>]

I've been looking hard at your suggestions and code this weekend. I'm 
very impressed with your ini parsing to create html pages in 
class_config, and class_tree.php.

I see what you want to do by converting the ini file to php, but I don't 
understand the "depends" part of it:

$server_defs["nfs_share"]["depends"]["value"]["0"]      = "nfs";
$server_defs["nfs_share"]["depends"]["value"]["1"]      = "nfs";
$server_defs["nfs_share"]["depends"]["rule"]["0"]       = "0:TRUE";
$server_defs["nfs_share"]["depends"]["rule"]["1"]       = "1:TRUE";

I'm thinking we could still use an ini file. If I pass a second 
parameter of TRUE to the parse_ini_file() function, I could use an ini 
file like this to put the variables into a two-dimensional array:

---- begin example ---

[active]
type = choice
description = "Should I create backups from this server"

[login]
type = text
description = "Users login name"

[password]
type = encrypted
description = "Users password"

[server]
type = text
description = "The servers network name"

[server_ip]
type = ip
description = "The servers ip address"

[share]
type = text
description = "The descriptive name of the share"

[nfs_share]
type = path
description = "The path the nfs share is mounted under"
depends = "$backup_method == nfs || $restore_method == nfs"

[smb_share]
type = text
description = "The name of the smb share"
depends = "$backup_method == smb || $restore_method == smb"

[rsync_share]
type = text
description = "The name of the rsync share"
depends = "$backup_method == rsync"

[backup_method]
type  = list    <-- (note: this will be a new data type for a drop-down 
list)
description = "What should I use for making backups"
list = "nfs,rsync,smb"

[restore_method]
type = list
description = "What should I use for restoring files"
list = "nfs,smb"

[compress]
type = choice
description = "Compress incremental files?"

[incrementals]
type = number
description = "How many incrementals to keep ( 0 = infinite )"

[run_days]
type = number
description = "Which days to backup. ( 0 = monday, 1 = tuesday .. 
etc)" = "The servers network name"

---- end example ---

But I don't know if I can turn this line

    depends = "$backup_method == nfs || $restore_method == nfs"

into an executable statement that will return TRUE or FALSE.

Do you think it can work? Think it's a good idea?

I'll work on rewriting admin.php and class_config.php. It will be a  
worthy challenge with my limited php experience, and it's only the two 
files affected, so I'm pretty safe.