PHP从文件中保存和检索选项

Question

I use a custom CMS in PHP and I need to let admin user to save a global configuration option for his website.

I would like to store this value into a file. Avoiding to save it into mysql DB, so I don't need to do an extra query on every page load.

What is the best way to store this option from a form into a file? I need to reload my saved setting so it can be edited with my form

Answer 1

Ini file format simple enough for anyone to understand (read). You might want to paste the file's content into a textarea for simple edition.

For advanced edition, you can use parse_ini_file http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php .