Re: Re: How to read PHP variables.

Bruno B B Magalhães wrote:

Hi everybody, well I don´t want to include and use those variables or set then. I want to read the file, parse the vars to a form, so the user can change the system configs using the web instead of FTP... I am thinking reading using a simple include, and then clean the file contents and write the strings.. Best Regards, Bruno B B Magalhães One simple way that I've done that in the past is to have a file, which is a basic php file like:

<?php $INFO['prefix_sectionInForm'] = 'whatever'; ?> Include that file then do foreach( $INFO as $in_key => $in_val ) { if( preg_match("/prefix_/", $in_key) ) { $db_info[$in_key] = $in_val; } } foreach( $db_info as $in_key => $in_val ) { $text = ucfirst(substr( $in_key, however long the prefix is )); $print "Some descroptor based on the prefix".$text <input type='text' name='$in_key' value='in_val' /> } Then just write it all back out on the form processor part, with some security checking of course: $file_string = "<?php\n"; $update is an array with the key values I want.. foreach( $update as $info_key ) { foreach( $input as $in_key => $in_val ) { if( $info_key == $in_key ) { $new[$info_key] = $in_val; } } } foreach( $new as $k => $v ) { $file_string .= "\$INFO["."'".$k."'"."]\t\t\t=\t\"".$v."\";\n"; } $file_string .= "\n".'?'.'>'; Write $file_string back out to the config file. Like I said, there's more to the script than this, error checks, seurity checks and the like, but this is the 'meat' of it all.