[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37199: Strengthen language in wp-config-sample.php

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#37199: Strengthen language in wp-config-sample.php
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 Reporter:  kraftbj           |       Owner:  jorbin
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  low               |   Milestone:  5.8
Component:  Bootstrap/Load    |     Version:
 Severity:  minor             |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch commit  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by schlessera):

 Thanks for the ping, @swissspidy!

 There are probably more integrations that this will break apart from WP-
 CLI, as most managed hosting platforms customize the config file in some
 form or other.

 For WP-CLI I can plan a more flexible anchor pattern to take this into
 account, but I wonder whether it wouldn't be a good opportunity to rethink
 the configuration file in general, if we're already breaking existing
 integrations anyway...

 For example, how about allowing for a configuration file to only contain
 configuration, and not be a needed part of the loading process (i.e. right
 now there is a hard require of `wp-settings.php` directly in the config
 file)?

 So, WP could for example pull in the configuration file, and then, if WP
 was not already loaded in the next line of code, load `wp-settings.php`
 from there. This way, the `wp-config.php` file would actually be what its
 names claims to be.

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