ZoneMinder::Config(3)

💖 NAME 💖

ZoneMinder::Config — the ZoneMinder configuration module, periodt. This is the ZoneMinder::Config(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and we’re gonna get you comfy with it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use ZoneMinder::Config qw(:all);

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so the ZoneMinder::Config module is literally here to import the ZoneMinder configuration from the database. It does this at compile time in a BEGIN block, and it needs access to the zm.conf file — either in the current directory or in its defined location — so it can figure out the database access details. Configuration from that file also gets included too, bestie. If you use the :all or :config tags, then this configuration gets exported into the namespace of the calling program or module. Slay.

Once the configuration has been imported, the configuration variables are defined as constants and can be accessed directly by name, like this:

$lang = $Config{ZM_LANG_DEFAULT};

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

loadConfigFromDB ();

Loads existing configuration from the database (if any) and merges it with the definitions held in this module. The result? Any new configuration gets merged in, any deprecated configuration gets removed, and the existing values of everything else are preserved. Iconic behavior, honestly.

saveConfigToDB ();

Saves the configuration held in memory to the database. The act of loading and saving configuration is a convenient way to make sure the configuration held in the database corresponds with the most recent definitions, and that all components are using the same set of configuration. Teamwork makes the dream work 💅

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🎀 EXPORT 🎀

None by default, bestie.

• :constants — exports the ZM_PID constant, which details the location of the zm.pid file.
• :config — exports all configuration from the database as well as any from the zm.conf file.
• :all — exports all of the above symbols.

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

http://www.zoneminder.com — go off 👑

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

Philip Coombes, <philip.coombes@zoneminder.com> — main character energy fr fr.

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

Copyright (C) 2001-2008  Philip Coombes

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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