Blog do Pedro Padron

A few weeks ago I did the first release of augeas, my first PECL extension. Augeas is a configuration editing tool that provides an unified API to different configuration file formats. Quoting the official website:

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

After the second release, I notified David Lutterkort, who was kind enough to add the PHP extension to the list of language bindings in the Augeas website.

Well, today I just released version 0.4.0 (thanks to Pierre Joye for fixing the upload page), which includes a new method (Augeas::mv()) and finally a PHPUnit test suite (AllTests.php).

The next items in my TODO list regarding this project are (in no particular order):

• Augeas::defVar() wrapping aug_defvar()
• Augeas::__toString() wrapping aug_print() to make debugging easier
• complete docbook documentation instead of this wiki

Here’s a sample of what you can do with Augeas:

$aug = new Augeas();
 
// let's disable register_globals!
$aug->set("/files/etc/php.ini/PHP/register_globals", "Off");
 
if (!$aug->save()) {
    die("You do not have enough privileges to edit php.ini file.");
}

How easy was that? No regex, no fopen, no hassle.