9 replies to this topic

[influct]

I'm in a bit of a pickle: I have a config.php file that looks something like:

<?php
//One set of variables
$variable1 = "omfg";
$variable2 = "hoha";
$variable3 = "rofl";

//second lot of variables
$variable1b = "omfg";
$variable2b = "hoha";
$variable3b = "rofl";

//third lot of variables
$variable1c = "omfg";
$variable2c = "hoha";
$variable3c = "rofl";
?>

You get the idea


The problem is I've no idea how to get config.php translated into a variable,

Normally something like:

<?php
$myFile = "config.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theData = fgets($fh);
fclose($fh);
echo" $theData ";
?>

This comes up blank, I need $theData to echo the code of config.php

Any suggestions:S
Thanks:D

[Mr. Matt]

if you want the contents of the file stored into an array you use:

$myfile = file_get_contents('config.php');

Matt

[influct]

can i get that in context please?:S

$myfile = file_get_contents('config.php');
echo"$myfile";

just turns up blank:(

Sorry about this, I'm not familiar with flat files.
Thank you!

[Mr. Matt]

well how about you tell us why you want to get the file into a variable and what you are going to do with it so we can help you better.

Matt

[Hayden]

If I understand what the final result you want is....


Why not just do...

include "config.php";

then you've got all the variables available in your main application in you can do whatever you want with them.

[influct]

basically the idea is that a user can update their settings in config.php
I want to do this by doing something like this:
grab config.php as text, not as php
split it up (I know how to do this bit:D)
Insert the new settings where the old were, then put back together and write to file.
Becuase of the way im doing this I need to handle the php like its text:D
Thanks very much:)

[Hayden]

influct, on Dec 7 2006, 11:13 AM, said:

basically the idea is that a user can update their settings in config.php
I want to do this by doing something like this:
grab config.php as text, not as php
split it up (I know how to do this bit:D)
Insert the new settings where the old were, then put back together and write to file.
Becuase of the way im doing this I need to handle the php like its text:D
Thanks very much:)

ahh, then you don't want to wrap it with the <?php ?> or even assign it variables.

Just make a basic text flat file with the information.

omfg
rofl
haha

then use something like this:

<?php
$myFile = "config.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theData = fgets($fh);
fclose($fh);
echo" $theData ";
?>

to read it into an array variable.

[rc69]

So here's my problem. He says he's trying to echo out the following:

<?php
// List of variables...
?>

But the problem is "it" is turning up blank. What "it" is, i don't know, but i'm willing to assume it's his screen. If thats the case, have you tried viewing your source to see if it was there? Since you're dealing with HTML, anything inbetween a < and a > won't show up unless you use htmlspecialchars().

So try this:

$data = file_get_contents('config.php');
// Or if you're php version is < 4.1:
// $data = implode('', file('config.php'));
echo '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($data).'</pre>';

That should get something to display on your screen (provided it was showing up in the source to begin with, and you just never checked that).

Spatial, you gotta remember. It's a config file, so he'll still need the opening/closing php tags, and the variable assignments. I'm sure he's simply including the file to load the variables for the specific users, and what we're doing here is attempting to modify the file.

An easy way to do all of this would be to simply use an ini file along with parse_ini_file().

[Hayden]

rc69, on Dec 7 2006, 04:31 PM, said:

Spatial, you gotta remember. It's a config file, so he'll still need the opening/closing php tags, and the variable assignments. I'm sure he's simply including the file to load the variables for the specific users, and what we're doing here is attempting to modify the file.

An easy way to do all of this would be to simply use an ini file along with parse_ini_file().

I figured the way I posted, each user having their own flat file, seemed easier to comprehend but I like the INI idea A LOT better.

[influct]

rc69 thank you so much:D
My problem is solved!
Thanks so much, you really helped me out!