I want to to read and write some data to text files from my PHP app. Its a small amount of data. Really just configurations.
My concern is that I have no control over the deployment environment. It will be a mixed bag of servers, mac and windows. They will all be running PHP5.3 and greater. The mac servers will have apache, and the windows servers will be running IIS.
I don't want customers calling with issues related to server setup and or permissions on files/folders.
I am pretty sure that WordPress does this all the time so, I know this is possible to do cleanly. The questions is how? Does anyone have any suggestions, pointers to libraries, or strategies that will help me accomplish my goal.
I ruled out sqlLite for this purpose, because i don't think it is enabled by default on windows and I think it is no longer installed on php5.4 windows by default. My main goal is to be able to persist a small amount of data in such a way that does drive my support costs through the rough the roof.