Question

I wanted to know if parsing the INI file in the constructor is ok or is there a more optimal process?

So my current process is to pass the INI file while instantiating the class like this:

include_once('/path/to/class.php');
$bar = new Foo('/path/to/class.ini');
$bar->runProcess();

So in my class constructor I have something like this:

public function __construct($ini_file) {
    $ini = parse_ini_file($ini_file, true);

    // Then set all the variables I need here from the INI
    $this->variable_setting = $ini['ini_section']['ini_variable'];   
}

Answer 1

Doing it in the constructor is fine. However, if you don’t always need it, you might want to do it in a separate method which is called only when the ini file is actually needed.