Web Application Properties

[simon622]

Hello all,

I am endeavouring to use an xml document as an application configuration file to store constants/globals, eg COOKIE_TIMEOUT etc etc and general properties like absoute path to welcome pages etc.

I am using this methodology becuase I am from a java background and am used to using things like the web.xml file in j2ee architecture. However I have never been faced with the need to parse the xml document myself, thats already been taken care.

Basically I have defined all of my roots and nodes etc, however I now need to be able to parse these into application wide variables.

Going from;

<web-app>
<constant>
<param-name>COOKIE_TIMEOUT</param-name>
<param-value>606024*7</param-value>
</constant>
</web-app>

to;

define(COOKIE_TIMEOUT,(606024*7);

Any help would be great.

[fukas]

What about WDDX? I thing it's good idea for beginning, if you are ready to change our own XML format to XML standard. :p

[simon622]

I was under the impression that WDDX was for converting from say perl -> Structured Data -> PHP. I am not trying to talk to a legacy system or anything just parse some XML data into PHP variables. I think that is slightly overkill isn't it?

[fukas]

Just write the transformation script for transforming the 'config.xml' to 'config.php'. Read the manual for information about XML and PHP coding. I thing it's simple.