[Gitstat-devel] Using the admin.php for some configuration items

[Paul V. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi,

This has been briefly touched before.

I think it's a good idea to put some of the items that are currently in the 
configuration files (config.php and config.pl) into the database.

It lessens the burden on the poor guy who has to add similar changes to 2 files. 
This has become even more 'important' after the changes to get less kernel centric.

The only thing we can't put on the admin page is the configuration of the 
database settings. We could do it a bit like Joomla is doing this:

- Start with a configuration/installation page with the sole intent to add 
configuration parameters for the database to a config file.
- After the above step is done, this configuration/installation page should be 
deleted by the administrator.
- If the file is not deleted the user should not be able to touch any of the pages.
- We now have the database configuration and the administrator can add all the 
necessary stuff via admin.php.

The benefit is that the configfile will only hold database settings, the rest 
(all?) of the settings will be in the database.

Comments? Remarks? Suggestions?

Cheers,

Paul.