An alternative to “hacking” config files
Andy Dawson (aka AD7six) and Felix Geisendörfer (aka the_undefined) presented in the last 24 hours solutions for switching the database configuration based on some criteria. These solutions work fine, but personally I use a different approach.
I try to avoid to add code to configuration files because those files shouldn’t contain any logic. Instead I use Subversion to manage different configurations. In my repository I have at least two folders for each project: a “trunk” folder where the development happens, and a “live” folder which contains the code (and configurations) for the live application. So if I put something online I just export the content of the “live” folder from the repository, and with it the “live” configuration.
Well I can’t argue that that the SVN solution is pretty good, however, I like having this very straight forward method as well since some of the very small projects / code demonstration things I write are not managed via SVN.
And how do you manage to keep both of your SVN version in synch without overwriting the live config by accident? Some hints would be great. TIA
@Kjell Bublitz: I use a rather pragmatic approach. I just copy the folders I work with (controllers, models, views) to the “live” folder, synchronize the “live” folder with the repository and commit the changes.
I develop locally on my laptop, have experimented with local svn version control, but since I am the only one working on my projects I usually just gzip my directories for backups.
I use rsync to deploy code changes to my servers though. I have 2 different database config files. database.php.live, database.php.local.
My script that runs rsync just moves files around before syncing.
Here is my script. I execute it from the command line….
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#!/bin/bash
chmod -R 755 *
cp ./app/config/database.php.live ./app/config/database.php
rsync -az -e ssh –delete ./ username@example.com:/path/to/public/directory
cp ./app/config/database.php.local ./app/config/database.php
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No logic in my project, just moving files around before and after syncing.