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patConfiguration is a PHP-based tool designed, in the author's words, to "access XML-based configuration files via PHP". Developed by Stephan Schmidt, it is freely available for download and is packaged as a single PHP class which can be easily included in your application.

Very simply, patConfiguration provides application developers with a set of APIs that ease the task of reading, writing and maintaining application configuration files. As a tool designed to assist in the manipulation of data, it fully supports the XML data markup toolkit, and is capable of producing configuration files in both XML and PHP format. It supports a variety of different data types for configuration values, comes with the ability to link configuration variables together, and supports caching of configuration data for better performance.

If you're in the business of building Web applications, and if those applications require some amount of configuration to get up and running, you're going to find patConfiguration invaluable to your development cycle. Written as a PHP class, patConfiguration can easily be integrated into any PHP-based Web application, and can substantially reduce the amount of time you spend manipulating application configuration files and data. You'll find it functional, powerful and (if you're the kind who likes fiddling) easily extensible, and it'll soon be a standard component of every application you write.

Before proceeding further, you should visit the patConfiguration home page athttp://www.php-tools.de/and download a copy of the latest version (1.3 at the time of writing). The package contains the main class file, documentation outlining the exposed methods and variables, and some example scripts.

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