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    <p>I was planning to use an XML document to store configuration for my next PHP project, in a format similar to ASP.NET Web.Config files. Just two concerns:</p> <ol> <li>Cannot be served to the browser.</li> <li>Must be viable in shared hosting.</li> </ol> <p>The best way I could think to prevent it from being served is to change the filetype to PHP and add the following comment:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?&gt; &lt;!-- &lt;?php if(!defined('FW_LOADED')){ exit; } ?&gt; --&gt; &lt;configuration&gt; .... &lt;/configuration&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is working fine, but I don't feel like it is the best solution.</p> <p>Has anybody else used XML to store configuration for a PHP project? What are some good alternate solutions (instead of putting a comment at the beginning of the file which exits the script if a constant is not defined)?</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>Changed the question title to better reflect what I'm looking for. Sorry for the misleading original question title. Using XML for configuration is <strong>not the question</strong>. I am asking for the best practices when using XML for configuration. <em>Please stop suggesting that I use arrays or INI files...</em></p> <p>I want the config file to be as easy as possible to use, even for non php developers. I chose XML because it is language neutral. I am already using SimpleXML to parse the config (partially). I am also not worried about compiling or making it faster because that can be achieved using memcached or other utilities.</p> <p>The best solutions so far are:</p> <ul> <li>Moving it out of web root. <ul> <li><em>Possible, but would like to keep the config as close as possible to the application.</em> </li> </ul></li> <li>Using htaccess to hide the config file. <ul> <li><em>I don't want to risk the chance that someone breaks the .htaccess file, leaving the config file exposed.</em></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>I would like to hear from someone who has experience using XML for configuration settings in an application, and how they prevent the config file from being served.</p>
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    1. COWhy not use [parse_ini](http://www.php.net/parse_ini_file) to get your configuration? It parses an ini file and returns an array.
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