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[nycphp-talk] Local File versus DB-based configuration setting strategy

cliff cliff at pinestream.com
Sun Jul 9 11:19:37 EDT 2006


> > difficult to keep the config information in synch using local files.
> 
> What kind of config settings?  Is your migration to multiple servers 
> imminent or hoped-for?

Hoped-for -- wishful thinking. Everything from the database username/password
to email settings to status code lookup tables (a # to a word translation) to
graph settings, among many others.

> > Obviously the database info can't be kept in the database, but beyond 
> > that, most everything can. I have avoided this presuming that it would 
> > be a huge performance hit, but perhaps not with caching.
> 
> What do you mean by database info?

The username/password access settings.



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