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Create configuration content

There are many ways to create content in your Config object. You can simply pass it an array like it is shown in the example below:

Example 19-1. Create configuration with array

// configuration array          $conf = array('DB' =>         				array('type' => 'mysql',         					  'host' => 'localhost',         					  'user' => 'root',         					  'pass' => 'root')         			  );                  // Config object                  $config = new Config();         $root =& $config->parseConfig($conf, 'phparray',         							  array('name' => 'conf'));         echo $root->toString('phparray', array('name' => 'conf'));

You can also ask Config to look for a file on your filesystem and try to parse it. You would then do it like this. This example assumes you have a valid XML file:

Example 19-2. Create configuration with a file

// Config object                  $config = new Config();         $root =& $config->parseConfig('/path/to/file.xml', 'xml');         echo $root->toString('phparray', array('name' => 'conf'));

At the moment, Config can parse XML, PHP arrays, ini files, Apache conf and other generic type of configurations with comments and key-value pairs.

Of course, it is also possible to create the configuration from scratch as shown in the previous section example.