I would like to make use of somehting like [parse_ini_file][1].
Lets say for instance I have a boot.ini file that I will load for further procedure:
;database connection settings
[database]
type = mysql;
host = localhost;
username = root;
password = "";
dbName = wit;
However, I would like to have it in a different way as the php array would be:
$ini['database']['whatever']
So first of all I would like to have my boot.ini like this structure:
;database settings (comment same style)
db.host1.type = mysql;
db.host1.host = localhost;
db.host1.username = root;
db.host1.password = "";
db.host1.dbName = wit;
db.host2.type = mysql;
db.host2.host = otherHost;
db.host2.username = root;
db.host2.password = "";
db.host2.dbName = wit;
So when I now access the file I would like to access it this way:
$ini['db']['host1']['whatever']
And on top of that I would like to do it via OOP so lets say:
$ini->db->host1->whatever
or `$ini->db->host1`
will return an array with all the attributes such as type, host, username, password and the dbName;
I appreciate anykind of help. Thank you very much in advance.
[1]: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php
Well, you need to postprocess the parse_ini_file result array then.
$ini_array = parse_ini_file("bootstrap.ini");
$ini = new stdclass;
foreach ($ini_array as $key=>$value) {
$c = $ini;
foreach (explode(".", $key) as $key) {
if (!isset($c->$key)) {
$c->$key = new stdclass;
}
$prev = $c;
$c = $c->$key;
}
$prev->$key = $value;
}
Update Hackety-Hack. Now using an extra $prev to unset the last object level again. (A for loop to detect the last $key would have worked better).
If you want to use the array syntax and the object syntax, then replace the new stdclass with new ArrayObject(array(), 2);.
$ini_array = parse_ini_file("sample.ini");
$ini = new stdclass;
foreach ($ini_array as $key => $value) {
$last = substr(strrchr($key, '.'), 1);
if (!$last) $last = $key;
$node = $ini;
foreach (explode('.', $key) as $key2) {
if (!isset($node->$key2)) {
$node->$key2 = new stdclass;
}
if ($key2 == $last) {
$node->$key2 = $value;
} else {
$node = $node->$key2;
}
}
}
var_dump($ini->db->host1->type);
I got an elegant solution for you. This implementation allows inheritance and vectors using dots as our collegue "zerkms" showed us before. In truth, I took his solution and improved it. Thus the solution be like Zend Parser :) I tested it and works. But, as we know, is impossible test all possibilities. Then, I hope attent people detect troubles and propose corrections.
Here goes the code (as a function):
function parse($filename) {
$ini_array = parse_ini_file ( $filename, true );
if (! $ini_array)
throw new Exception ( 'Error on parsing ini file!', - 1 );
$ini = new stdClass ();
//Parse section...
foreach ( $ini_array as $namespace => $prop ) {
$section = $namespace;
$ext = explode ( ':', $namespace );
if (count ( $ext ) == 2) {
$section = trim ( $ext [0] );
$extend = trim ( $ext [1] );
if (! isset ( $ini->$extend ))
throw new Exception ( 'Parent section doesn\'t exists!', - 1 );
$ini->$section = clone $ini->$extend;
} else
$ini->$section = new stdClass ();
foreach ( $prop as $key => $value ) {
$arr = explode ( '.', $key );
$n = count ( $arr ) - 1;
if ($n) {
$aux = $ini->$section;
for($i = 0; $i < $n; ++ $i) {
if(!isset($aux->$arr [$i]))
$aux->$arr [$i] = new stdClass ();
$aux = $aux->$arr [$i];
}
$aux->$arr [$n] = $value;
} else
$ini->$section->$key = $value;
}
}
return $ini;
}
And here goes an example of .ini file:
[environment]
env_name = production
x.y = 3
[oi : environment]
z = 5
