Welcome to XJConf for PHP

XJConf for PHP enables you to create any type of PHP value (simple types as well as objects) from any XML-document. In order to achieve this, all you need to do is specify the rules for the config reader. These rules can be specified in two ways:

  • programmatically
  • using a special XML syntax

Dowloading XJConf for PHP

XJConf for PHP can be installed using the PEAR installer from http://pear.php-tools.net

If the PEAR installer is available on your system, you only need to execute the following commands: 

$ pear channel-discover pear.php-tools.net
$ pear install pat/XJConfForPHP-alpha

Nightly builds

Nightly builds of XJConf are available at http://snaps.php-tools.net/ We provide them as

  • ZIP archive
  • TAR.GZ archive
  • TAR.BZ2 archive
  • PEAR-installable package

Subversion access

To get the latest version follow these steps: 

$ svn checkout http://svn.xjconf.net/XJConfForPHP/trunk XJConfForPHP

External resources

Up until now we did not have the time to do our duty and create a user documentation for XJConf. However, there is a very good tutorial that covers most of the basic usage and gives a very good introduction into XJConf available at IBM DeveloperWorks: Process XML configuration files with PHP by Vikram Vaswani. Many thanks to him for taking the time to create this tutorial!

Another article describing an interesting usage scenario for XJConf: Configure PHP-applications with XJConf by Nic Waller.

History

XJConf for PHP is a backport of XJConf which is the same for Java which itself is a port of patConfiguration, an interface to access XML based configuration files via PHP.

Developers

XJConf for PHP is currently developed by:

How to use this site?

This site is powered by Trac, which is an enhanced Wiki and issue-tracking system. You can use this site to report bug reports or feature requests and also browse the source in the subversion repository. If you need help with Trac we recommend reading the TracGuide.

License

XJConf for PHP is published under the LGPL.