Configuration file

[Eric Kincl]

Hey, once again...

What is the best way to do a configuration file? I want it to be easy to
edit and contain a lot of defined values. (But not nessasarily use
"define"). I have seen it as an array before, and have used that, but I
have to do "global $config" for every function that uses it. Is there an
easier way? Should I be doing it some other way? Ideally I would like a C
syntax DEFINE, the only reason I'm not using define() is because I don't
like the way it looks - it makes it a bit more confusing to change.

Thanks, once again, in advance,
-Eric Kincl

[Eric Kincl]

Eric Kincl wrote:

Hey, once again...

What is the best way to do a configuration file? I want it to be easy to
edit and contain a lot of defined values. (But not nessasarily use
"define"). I have seen it as an array before, and have used that, but I
have to do "global $config" for every function that uses it. Is there an
easier way? Should I be doing it some other way? Ideally I would like a
C syntax DEFINE, the only reason I'm not using define() is because I don't
like the way it looks - it makes it a bit more confusing to change.

Thanks, once again, in advance,
-Eric Kincl

Forgot to mention/ask--
Is it possible to do dynamic definitions with "define()"? Such as:
define("DOCUMENT_ROOT", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
I would like to do this so that in my code I don't always have to keep
typing it in. I'm lazy :)
-Eric Kincl