Zend Framework Config: Using XML File Configuration

Zend Framework Configuration Step By Step Tutorial - Part 4: This is another alternative to create a configuration file. We can store configuration data in a simple XML format. To read it, we use Zend_Config_Xml().

First, create a XML file named "config.xml" within application. Enter following code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configdata>
  <app>
    <webhost>localhost</webhost>
	<database>
	  <host>localhost</host>
	  <username>root</username>
	  <password>admin</password>
	  <dbname>zend</dbname>
	</database>
  </app>
</configdata>

To access it, we can use:

require_once 'Zend/Config/Xml.php';

$config = new Zend_Config_Xml('../application/config.xml','app');