Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Automatic config rewriter php -> ini

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Has anyone made any progress in this area?  The major hold-up for me
> updating Debian to 1.3.1[01] is that it'll force every PHPWiki user in
> Debian to rewrite their config files, which is unlikely to make them jump
> for joy.

I'm a good way toward being done.  Been busy with work, getting a new 
laptop, and rebuilding my windows server at home.  Once I have the CLI 
client working and tested I'll commit it.

> 
> I did have one (potential) brain-wave, which would also, as a side-effect,
> solve the major cause of complaint against the ini-file system.  Put
> together code which parses the INI file and writes a config.php full of
> define()s and whatever else takes your fancy, and source *that* instead of
> doing an INI parse every invocation.  Then, just have a bit of code that
> compares the mtime of config.ini with that of config.php, and rewrite
> config.php if it's older than config.ini.  The first user to hit the new
> config file gets a 1-2 second slowdown, maybe, but that can be server lag,
> and everyone else gets smokingly fast response times.
> 

Yeah thought of that too.  It'll be an option for the CLI client to 
build a config.php.  Then if config.php is present it'll use it instead 
of config.ini.

jbw