[development] Evil hack: admin/modules without memory restrictions

Khalid B kb at 2bits.com
Mon Jan 23 00:25:13 UTC 2006


> > 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).


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