Best way to write arrays to a file? [closed]

Question

I want to avoid writing to DB and use constants/array for lang files etc.

i.e:

$lang = array (
  'hello' => 'hello world!'
);

and be able to edit it from the back office. (then instead of fetching it from the poor db, i would just use $lang['hello']..).

what are you suggesting for the best and efficient way to pull it of?

Answer 1

the most efficient way i found looks like this:

build up your array in php somehow and export it into a file using var_export()

file_put_contents( '/some/file/data.php', '<?php return '.var_export( $data_array, true ).";\n" );

then later, wherever you need this data pull it like this

$data = include '/some/file/data.php';