23 Jan
2006
23 Jan
'06
1:25 a.m.
I agree with you that an ini format may be better than the hypothetical format I used, let us go for that instead.
Why would a registry style format be good?
Just because we already have parsing functions, like Allie said. We will not even need the [section] thing. Just plain name = value pairs.
Why not use a format that native to php, like an associative array? We already do this with settings.php.
That is not a bad idea either. However, ini wins in the simplicity contest (readable to non-techie humans for example).