Separate configuration from code (yaml|json|xml)

[dnaber-de]

Basically, every configuration can be combined into arrays:

<?php

$sites = [
    'root' => [
        'url' => 'http://mysite.org/',
        'title' => 'My Site'
    ],
    'shop' => [
        'url' => 'http://mysite.org/shop/',
        'title' => 'My Shop'
    ]
];

$user = [
    'admin' => [
        'login' => 'david',
        'email' => '[email protected]'
    ],
    'editor' => [
        'login' => 'john',
        'email' => '[email protected]'
    ]
];

$plugins = [
    'network' => [
        'multilingual-press',
        'elasticpress'
    ],
    'root' => [
        'buddypress'
    ],
    'shop' => [
        'woocommerce'
    ]
];

The logic is then often very similar: it just loops over the entities and run the corresponding WP command.

Thus a configuration file would make sense here to avoid repetitive implementations of invoking this commands.

For the format I would prefer YAML over JSON even though, JSON has the more flexible syntax, because YAML allows comments.

Example:

sites:
  root:
    url: http://mysite.org/
    title: My Site
  shop:
    # ...

users:
  admin: 
    login: david
    email: [email protected]
  editor:
    # ...

# ...