Re: [phpesp-dev] .ini?

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:42:24AM -0700, randall ehren wrote:
> hi,
>  i have a few questions about the filestructure & setup of phpESP...
> 
>  1) is there any reasoning to have the config file be a .ini instead of say a
> .php so that there is no concern about it getting parsed as cleartext?
This has been mentioned before and it's something I would like to see happen.


> 
>  2) has anyone thought about using a global to define the filesystem
> locations? seems like it would require much less editing to use something like
> the horde.org's setup:
> 
> define('PHPESP_BASE', dirname(__FILE__));
> $locale_path  = PHPESP_BASE . "/locale/";
> $include_path = PHPESP_BASE . "/include/";
> ...
Also talked about before.  If it can be implemented without limiting
installation flexibility, which I think it can be, it should probably
also be done.



> 
>  3) any thoughts on importing adodb (http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB) so multiple
> databases could be used as the backend storage?
Another good one.  I would lean towards PEAR(http://pear.php.net)
instead of ADODB myself.  Anyone have any thoughts pro/con on PEAR,
ADODB, etc...?


> 
>  thanks,
> 
>         - randall s. ehren       :// 805.893.5632
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