Question

This is more of a concept question rather than a coding problem to be solved.
We have a number of scripts in both PHP and Perl.

There are a large number of MySQL servers spread around the company each with a large subset of different user/permission combos.

I would like to create a central configuration file, maybe as plain text file, that has a list of all the connection data. Each language would need to be able to read the files and parse them into a usable format.

I would like to know any preferred method of implementing this.

Answer 1

Pick any of ini, xml, yaml or json. There are libraries for working with any of these formats in Perl and PHP.