same config/template file for php and perl?

[dinz]

hello,
can someone please direct me to an easy solution for including the same config/template variable definitions in a php and a perl script?
we would like to set up a config file with a set of variables that should be used in the PHP and also the PERL parts of a web shop... (e.g. font color values, icon image URLs...).
your help is highly appreciated.
thanks,
dinz

[ednark]

both php and perl can use the same style regular expressions...

if you base the template parser off using perl style regular expressions then implementing the same logic around it should be simple if you do already know both languages

[dinz]

ednark, thanks for your reply.
so we must write a template parser in both languages, right?
is there no way to simply use the same include-file in both languages (which would use less system resources)?
thanks,
dinz

[Weedpacket]

It depends on how funky you want to get with your config ... if it's simple enough, PHP code and Perl code can look identical:

$domainname = 'example.com';
$page_background = '#ccffff';

If you start in on arrays, the syntax begins to differ of course, and actual code probably wouldn't carry across, only ... no, I can't think of a way to comment the code so that PHP reads PHP and a big comment and Perl reads a big comment and Perl.

You can have comments, of course: PHP and Perl both use # to start a one-line comment.