Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Situation update

[Matti A. <ma...@ik...>]

Carsten Klapp wrote:

> Which one is Joby Walker's config scheme, is that the one with 
> config-dist.php, config-user.php etc.? I like that system too... (the 
> configurator & old index.php are so huge now and getting tough to 
> maintain.)

Yes, that's the one. However, I have to take my words back slightly. 
IMHO the current implementation is not quite there yet. I found out 
there is *more* work in using the split configuration files at the 
moment. To know what to edit, one has to read config-dist.php, and copy 
the relevant parts from that file to config-user.php (and also be able 
to do basic PHP editing, such as to remove "if (!defined(...)) pieces). 
Furthermore, there are plenty of associative arrays used in the 
configuration files, and it may not be obvious to everyone how to 
override settings from within them.

Maybe all user-editable configuration parameters should be simple 
variables, and the comments should reside in config-user.php. After 
requiring both of these config-files, there could be a 
lib/config-parser.php, which would then parse the set configuration for 
correctness and mangle it to structures more suitable for internal use. 
Or something...

m.