[Phpwiki-talk] New Configuration System

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

I have done some of the basic work for updating the Configuration 
System.  For clarity I have split things into a few extra files:

config/Tools.php [mostly done] Has the helper classes to describe and 
validate configuration values.  This will be the backend for the 
configurators.

config/Values.php [1of7 parts done] Holds the configuration values in an 
array for easy processing.  Each value consists of an array describing 
the value, the default, and how to validate a new value.  This file is 
the single source of valid data.

config/config-dist.php [will be generated] Holds the default values of 
each config value.  The configurators will be able to generate this 
file.  This should probably be moved to config/Default.php or 
config/Distribution.php.

config/config-user.php [will be generated] Holds the customized values 
of each config value.  The configurators will be able to generate this 
file.  This should probably be moved to config/Custom.php or 
config/Local.php.

configurator.php [needs to be re-written] The web configurator to be run 
when starting a virgin wiki, and later as the Administrator.  This 
should probably be moved to config/WebConfig.php or config/WikiConfig.php.

config/CliConfig [needs to be written] The command line configurator. 
Can be run by anyone with write access to the config/ directory.


I'd like others to take a look and make some suggestions/corrections 
before I go too far down my current path.

jbw