RE: processing configuration (was) RE: Organisation filtering RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Anyone...Anyone...?

[Wizard <wi...@ne...>]

> OK, that seems to do much the same thing. It just seemed to make sense to
> do all the config variable procesing in one place but...

It's not that your idea doesn't make sense, it's just that it is really not
do-able. We discussed the configuration system earlier, and thought that it
might be abstracted at some point, so we're keeping it as simple as
possible.

> ...I'll wait to see the finished code. I'm curious about these user
> defined variables and how they will be used. I'll wait to read the
> code/docs and comment further then.

They're mostly just used as replacement strings for the templates. For
instance {=NMS_USER_CFG_my_advert=} in the template will take the
configuration directive:
USER_CFG_my_advert = <a href="http://mywebsite">Go to my website</a>
and replace the tag with it. No processing for safety, mind you, just read
and replace. At some point I may add language-accept & browser ID tags,
though. It's not in yet, so if you have any objections...

Grant M.