PHP Setting Script

[01hanstu]

Hi, Hope you can help. I want to know how i can make my own installation script so that once all of the details are filled in they are saved into a config file and then opened when requested i.e. the hostname, username, password for the sql database ...

 

Help will be appreciated

Stuart

[Absorbator]

As far as I know, it is not impossible to create a file and then fill it with PHP code, so I think this may help

<?php
$fileHandle=fopen("config.php", "w");
$stringToWrite="<?php  \$param1=$value1;
\$param2=$value2;
\$param3=$value3;
?>";
fwrite($fileHandle, $stringToWrite);
fclose($fileHandle);            /*Assuming that your data is - $value1, $value2 and $value3
Of course you may have any variable you want. The slash ("\") states as escaping character
*/
?>

 

Then when you have to use this file just include it

<?php include "config.php";?>

and use the variables you have already set (but here you are using $param not $value)

 

Hope this helps

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[flyhoney]

You could use JSON or XML or YAML for this.  That would probably be simpler than a PHP file.

 

<?php
// write
$config['hostname'] = 'pterodactyl.com';
$config['username'] = 'iheartdinosaurs';
$config['password'] = 'rawr';

$fp = fopen('config.json', 'w');
fwrite($fp, json_encode($config));
fclose($fp);

// read
$config = json_decode(file_get_contents('config.json'));
print_r($config);
?>

[flyhoney]

And here is a class that you can use for YAML: http://spyc.sourceforge.net/

 

YAML is nice because it is a very human readable markup.  Several PHP frameworks use this for configuration.

[flyhoney]

Also I just realized in my previous example that it makes more sense to use serialize/unserialize than json_encode/json_decode