Re: parse_ini_file() seems to be broken in PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:08:01 -0800, "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php Why doesn't PHP parse the 'null', 'true', 'false', etc into their proper equivalents? What's worse is that it does this mangling of my RAW values to be strings and sets them to "1" !!! WTF good does that do me?! Here is my test.ini file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------

[examples]                                  ; this is a section
                                            ; this is a comment line

log_level = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

1 = intkey                                  ; this is a int key
nullvalue = null                            ; this is NULL
truebool = true                             ; this is boolean (TRUE)
falsebool = false                           ; this is boolean (FALSE)
intvalue = -1                               ; this is a integer (-1)
floatvalue = +1.4E-3                        ; this is a float (0.0014)
stringvalue = Hello World                   ; this is a unquoted string
quoted = "Hello World"                      ; this is a quoted string
apostrophed = 'Hello World'                 ; this is a apostrophed string
quoted escaped = "it work's \"fine\"!"      ; this is a quoted string with

escaped quotes apostrophed escaped = 'it work\'s "fine"!' ; this is a apostrophed string with escaped apostrophes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Here is my test.php page: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- <?php var_dump(parse_ini_file('./test.ini', true)); ?> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Here is the output: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- array 'examples' =>

    array
      'log_level' => string '6135' (length=4)
      1 => string 'intkey' (length=6)
      'nullvalue' => string '' (length=0)
      'truebool' => string '1' (length=1)
      'falsebool' => string '' (length=0)
      'intvalue' => string '-1' (length=2)
      'floatvalue' => string '+1.4E-3' (length=7)
      'stringvalue' => string 'Hello World' (length=11)
      'quoted' => string 'Hello World' (length=11)
      'apostrophed' => string ''Hello World'' (length=13)
      'quoted escaped' => string 'it work's \fine\!' (length=17)
      'apostrophed escaped' => string ''it work\'sfine' (length=15)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------

Use the third parameter so the orignal values wil not get converted (still strings though) Besides that are you sure there are no whitespaces behind the ini values? var_dump(

    parse_ini_file('./foo.ini', true, INI_SCANNER_RAW)

); array(1) { ["examples"]=> array(11) {

    [1]=>
    string(40) "intkey                                  "
    ["nullvalue"]=>
    string(32) "null                            "
    ["truebool"]=>
    string(33) "TRUE                             "
    ["falsebool"]=>
    string(32) "false                           "
    ["intvalue"]=>
    string(33) "-1                               "
    ["floatvalue"]=>
    string(31) "+1.4E-3                        "
    ["stringvalue"]=>
    string(30) "Hello World                   "
    ["quoted"]=>
    string(35) ""Hello World"                      "
    ["apostrophed"]=>
    string(30) "'Hello World'                 "
    ["quoted escaped"]=>
    string(27) ""it work's \"fine\"!"      "
    ["apostrophed escaped"]=>
    string(22) "'it work\'s "fine"!'  "

} }

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