Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] Real admin page

[Wesley M. <we...@we...>]

The advantage of having the variables only defined in config.inc.php =20
is security. I personally would not want to expose certain things on =20
the admin page. And I don't think the current situation is too =20
difficult for regular admins to grasp. Right now, config.inc.php can =20
be read-only and it can hide things like the blacklisted calendars or =20=

user accounts. We're opening up a whole can of worms if we decide to =20
make this something that can be modified from a web page.

Certainly, the idea is nice. But I think things are less complicated =20
and more secure the current way, and there is very little advantage =20
to putting together a web-based admin page. config.inc.php is too =20
straight-forward and simple as it stands for me to believe it can =20
really benefit from a better UI.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

On Nov 29, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Marook Kenja wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Well, it was just a suggestion for an easy solution, so you didn't =20
> have to include XML parsing functions, or write your own parser - =20
> or at least a very simple write function.
>
> As the 'parser' would be a simple 'include "path/to/file.inc.php";'
> and the write could simply run through the defined variables, maybe =20=

> in an array, it should be Very simple.
>
> But if you wanna play around with parsing & writing XML files (or =20
> plain text), then fine with me - it's just raising the =20
> implementation level... ;-)
>
>
> Best,
>
>     Jakob Peterh=E4nsel
>
> 'I don't have to try to be a sex bomb, I am one!'
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>
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>
> On 29/11/2005, at 11:12, Nicolas Contamin wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/05, Marook Kenja <ma...@cr...> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Why not write a PHP constant definition file insted?
>>>
>>> Then you only need to Write the file, not parse it back, as it would
>>> be simple
>>>
>>> define ('theSettingName', 'theValue');
>>> lines. Would that not be easier, or?
>>
>> I hardly find the interest of a static page in a script format.
>> When I'll click on the 'save' button, I'll have to rewrite a php file
>> ? Sound strange to me.
>>
>> Would mind to explain a little bit more ?
>> Parsing is not a real charge for the server according to the =20
>> current process.

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Wesley Miaw
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