Every now and then I stumble upon PHP Code dealing with config files. Besides being happy that people use config files (uh, yes, it happens too often that people don’t…), I am often unhappy with how they’re dealing with config files. You can find the ugliest things out there, like arrays in .php files (my favorite). However, even if config files are used, there are strange things happening to them, like being read once and serialized into a constant.
So I want to share today a very primitive static data handler that I use for quite some time now, and wich has always served me well. By static, I mean data that doesn’t change during runtime, like smtp server connection data, database connection data and the likes.