PHP - How To Make Configuration Settings Available To All Scripts

Every now and then, I experience some strange behavior and eventually trace it back to parse_ini_file's scanner_mode being applicable to some parameter but not another, and am looking for alternatives.  Below are several of my thoughts.  How do you store configuration settings?  Do you use different approaches based on the application, and if so what criteria governs which you use?

Keep with a ini file with parse_ini_file.  Obviously, not working for me. An ini file but with a class dedicated to ensuring the data is appropriate.  Seems like too much duplicating content which will result in errors. YAML.  Don't think I want to. XML.  Not as readable. In a database.  Maybe, but might be harder to manage. Hardcode an array in PHP.  Probably not. JSON.  I like the idea, but feel comments are important in a config file, and am considering the following: Add extra valid JSON properties which contain comments.  Don't like the idea. Use JavaScript's JSON.stringify.  Too much mixing technologies. Add comments to the JSON and then strip them using a 3rd party parser such as https://json5.org/ or a little regex.  My main issue is inability to auto-format, but this seems viable. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

 

Greetings.  First time poster looking for some PHP help if it can be provided, because I'm confused as hell.

First off, I'll explain my situation.  I'm the IT technician of a small business tasked with ensuring the business' computers and website are running in top shape.  I originally joined as a Data Entry clerk to post products to the business' website, but got promoted when they original IT technician left town to pursue his PhD.  Before he left, he taught me a few things to prepare watching over the website as my new duty, including some PHP and MySQL.  Now, a few months after he's left, I have the glorious task of trying to move our website to a new host because we've apparently outgrown our original host's capabilities.  And being based on PHP with a MySQL database, it's turning out to be OH-so-fun.

So far, I've managed to download our entire website from the old host and given it to our new host to put up as a testing site, to ensure everything works before we switch hosts.  And for the most part, a lot of it has come together nicely, but there's still work needed to be done.  And thus we come to the problem I hope someone here can help with.

Our website has two back-end Admin sections, an older one that used to handle everything, and a newer one that's sleeker but still reads off a lot of data from the older one to work properly.  Normally, when you access those sections, you need to log in first.  Now, in the testing site, when I access those areas, the header of each of those sections now reads <?= $row[title] ?> and if I attempt to log in as normal, it just flashes back to the login page with the fields now cleared of what I typed in.  When I asked about this to see what the problem might be, the new host said it might "at least two misconfigurations on the new server relative to the old server".  So, I've been trying to Google for some help with PHP Configuration Functions, but I don't know if what I'm reading will help me fix the problem.  Would anyone here happen to know what they might mean in this case, because my knowledge of PHP is fairly limited beyond what I was taught to keep the website in order without considering a host change...

Thanks to those who help or can direct me to a place that helps!

Dear All,

Hi Guys,

I'm a bit new to php coding, so dont really know what the best way to code this up.
I want to make a router configuration page, such as it shows the link status (ip/gatewatway etc) and also have input selections such as to turn on/off wifi / dhcp etc.
Ideally I would like the data stored and written to a text file as the php server is running on a linux arm embedded system. At present I have been able to read back from a text file the corresponding values for each of the status information (these are stored on a seperate line), but I'm having difficulty writing and reading the input selection boxes, such as when the dhcp is disabled I need it to write to a file that its been disabled and refresh the page to allow entry of the static ip box and then when the apply button is pressed the value is written to the file.

This may be out of my depth, hopefully someone could give me some pointers.
I feel that the text file might not be the best way of storing and recalling values but I don't know of another way.

Many Thanks
Tim

hi,
i have a configuration file with this content for example:

test = "100";
teste2 = "300";

now need change the test from 100 to 300,
i just want use something like this: function ( "test" , 300 );
 how can i do that?
thanks for help