Re: [Phpwiki-talk] config in db

[Oliver B. <ob...@de...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

[...]

> Persuaded.
> But I would like to seperate the config from the startup file. 
> lib/config sanifies the config settings, so PHPWIKI_DIR."/config.php" 
> would be fine.

Maye I didn't understand what you mean, but isn't this already the 
case?

The (wikiname).php contains the specific settings, and includes 
index.php.

This way I had to set only 'WIKI_NAME', 'ADMIN_USER', 'ADMIN_PASSWD', 
'ENCRYPTED_PASSWD', 'WIKI_PGSRC' and $DBParams['directory'] in 
(wikiname).php

I like this. It's simple but absolutely flexible.

Or do you only think about putting index.php in another directory?

> >>This is much easier to install and maybe easier to maintain then the 
> > 
> > Maintenance is harder, IMO.
> > 
> > In which manner do you think the installation will be easier than 
> > now?
> 
> Most of the local apache/php settings could be calculated automatically.
> One should only define if e.g. USE_PATH_INFO = true or false, and the 
> appropriate VIRTUAL_PATH, DATA_PATH settings can be calculated.

Already worked automagically for me, but I'm no expert.

> Also applied .htaccess samples

> Same for database and authorization settings, which depend on the 
> available libraries and services.

Maybe difficult: if there is more than ony database option? If there 
is an existing database?

Like Zot O'Connor, I also think "that web based configuration and 
flat file config are not incongruous". Storing the config in some non-
php but plain text "database" is o.k., and maybe simpler to process 
by a web based configuration tool, because it has a fixed format.

But I wonder whether such a configuration tool is worth the effort 
(initial and maintenance). I tried the configurator only once and I 
had not the impression that it made things noticeable easier than 
editing a .php file.

The index.php is large, but well documented and not too difficult to 
edit. Maybe it would help to change the order of the entries: first 
those settings being edited most likely, later the more exotic.

Oliver
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Oliver Betz, Muenchen