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    parse_ini_file

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    parse_ini_file — Analiza un fichero de configuración

    Descripción

    parse_ini_file(string $filename, bool $process_sections = false, int $scanner_mode = INI_SCANNER_NORMAL): array

    parse_ini_file() carga el fichero ini especificado en filename, y devuelve las configuraciones que hay en él a un array asociativa.

    La estructura del ficher0 ini es la misma que la de php.ini.

    Parámetros

    filename

    El nombre del fichero ini que va a ser analizado.

    process_sections

    Al establecer el parámetro process_sections a true, se obtiene un array multidimesional, con los nombres de las secciones y las configuraciones incluidas. El valor por defecto de process_sections es false

    scanner_mode

    Puede ser o INI_SCANNER_NORMAL (por defecto) o INI_SCANNER_RAW. Si INI_SCANNER_RAW es proporcionado, los valores de las opciones no serán analizadas.

    A partir de PHP 5.6.1 también se puede especificar como INI_SCANNER_TYPED. En este modo, los tipos boolean, null e integer se preservan siempre que sea posible. Los valores de string "true", "on" y "yes" son convertidos a true. "false", "off", "no" y "none" se consideran como false. "null" se convierte a null en el modo tipificado. También, todos los string numéricos son convertidos al tipo integer fuera es posible.

    Valores devueltos

    Las configuraciones son devueltas como un array asociativo si se tiene éxito, y false si falla.

    Ejemplos

    Ejemplo #1 Contenido de ejemplo.ini

    ; Este es un ejemplo de fichero de configuración
; Los comentarios empiezan con ';', como en php.ini

[primera_sección]
uno = 1
cinco = 5
animal = PÁJARO

[segunda_sección]
ruta = "/usr/local/bin"
URL = "http://www.example.com/~username"

[tercera_sección]
phpversion[] = "5.0"
phpversion[] = "5.1"
phpversion[] = "5.2"
phpversion[] = "5.3"

urls[svn] = "http://svn.php.net"
urls[git] = "http://git.php.net"

    Ejemplo #2 Ejemplo de parse_ini_file()

    Las Constantes también se pueden analizar en el fichero ini, por lo que si se define una constante como un valor ini antes de ejecutar parse_ini_file(), también será integrada dentro de los resultados. Sólo los valores ini son evaluados. Por ejemplo:

    <?php

    define    ('PÁJARO', 'Pájaro dodo');

    // Analizar sin secciones
    $array_ini = parse_ini_file("ejemplo.ini");
    print_r($array_ini);

    // Analizar con secciones
    $array_ini = parse_ini_file("ejemplo.ini", true);
    print_r($array_ini);

    ?>

    El resultado del ejemplo sería algo similar a:

    Array
(
    [uno] => 1
    [cinco] => 5
    [animal] => Pájaro dodo
    [ruta] => /usr/local/bin
    [URL] => http://www.example.com/~username
    [phpversion] => Array
        (
            [0] => 5.0
            [1] => 5.1
            [2] => 5.2
            [3] => 5.3
        )

    [urls] => Array
        (
            [svn] => http://svn.php.net
            [git] => http://git.php.net
        )

)
Array
(
    [primera_sección] => Array
        (
            [uno] => 1
            [cinco] => 5
            [animal] => Pájaro dodo
        )

    [segunda_sección] => Array
        (
            [ruta] => /usr/local/bin
            [URL] => http://www.example.com/~username
        )

    [tercera_sección] => Array
        (
            [phpversion] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 5.0
                    [1] => 5.1
                    [2] => 5.2
                    [3] => 5.3
                )

            [urls] => Array
                (
                    [svn] => http://svn.php.net
                    [git] => http://git.php.net
                )

        )

)

    Ejemplo #3 parse_ini_file() analizando un fichero de php.ini

    <?php
    // Una sencilla función usada para comparar los resultados de abajo
    function síno($expresión)
    {
    return(    $expresión ? 'Sí' : 'No');
    }

    // Obtiene la ruta de php.ini usando la función
    // php_ini_loaded_file() disponible a partir de PHP 5.2.4
    $ruta_ini = php_ini_loaded_file();

    // Analizar php.ini
    $ini = parse_ini_file($ruta_ini);

    // Imprime y compara los valores, observe que al usar get_cfg_var()
    // se obtendrán aquí los mismos resultados de análisis y carga
    echo '(analizado) magic_quotes_gpc = ' . síno($ini['magic_quotes_gpc']) . PHP_EOL;
    echo     '(cargado) magic_quotes_gpc = ' . síno(get_cfg_var('magic_quotes_gpc')) . PHP_EOL;
    ?>

    El resultado del ejemplo sería algo similar a:

    (parsed) magic_quotes_gpc = Yes
(loaded) magic_quotes_gpc = Yes

    Notas

    Nota:

    Esta función no tiene nada que ver con el fichero php.ini. Éste es procesado en el momento en el que se ejecuta el script. Esta función se puede usar para leer los ficheros de configuración de sus propias aplicaciones.

    Nota:

    Si un valor en el fichero ini contiene cualquier carácter no alfanumérico, se necesita encerrarlo entre comillas dobles (").

    Nota: Hay palabras reservadas que no se deben usar como claves en los ficheros ini. Éstas incluyen: null, yes, no, true, false, on, off, none. Los valores null, off, no y false resultan en "", y los valores on, yes and true resultan en "1", a menos que se utilice el modo INI_SCANNER_TYPED (a partir de PHP 5.6.1). Los caracteres ?{}|&~!()^" no se deben usar en ningún lugar de la clave y tienen un significado especial en el valor.

    Nota:

    Las entradas sin un signo igual son ignoradas. Por ejemplo, "foo" es ignorado, mientras que "bar =" se analiza y se añade con un valor vacío. Por ejemplo, MySQL tiene un ajuste de "no auto-rehash" en my.cnf que no toma ningún valor, siendo así ignorado.

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    User Contributed Notes 13 notes

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    jeremygiberson at gmail dot com
    16 years ago
    Here is a quick parse_ini_file wrapper to add extend support to save typing and redundancy.
    <?php
    /**
    * Parses INI file adding extends functionality via ":base" postfix on namespace.
    *
    * @param string $filename
    * @return array
    */
    function parse_ini_file_extended($filename) {
    $p_ini = parse_ini_file($filename, true);
    $config = array();
    foreach(    $p_ini as $namespace => $properties){
    list(    $name, $extends) = explode(':', $namespace);
    $name = trim($name);
    $extends = trim($extends);
    // create namespace if necessary
    if(!isset($config[$name])) $config[$name] = array();
    // inherit base namespace
    if(isset($p_ini[$extends])){
    foreach(    $p_ini[$extends] as $prop => $val)
    $config[$name][$prop] = $val;
    }
    // overwrite / set current namespace values
    foreach($properties as $prop => $val)
    $config[$name][$prop] = $val;
    }
    return     $config;
    }
    ?>

    Treats this ini:
    <?php
    /*
    [base]
    host=localhost
    user=testuser
    pass=testpass
    database=default

    [users:base]
    database=users

    [archive : base]
    database=archive
    */
    ?>
    As if it were like this:
    <?php
    /*
    [base]
    host=localhost
    user=testuser
    pass=testpass
    database=default

    [users:base]
    host=localhost
    user=testuser
    pass=testpass
    database=users

    [archive : base]
    host=localhost
    user=testuser
    pass=testpass
    database=archive
    */
    ?>
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    Rekam
    11 years ago
    You may want, in some very special cases, to parse multi-dimensional array with N levels in your ini file. Something like setting[data][config][debug] = true will result in an error (expected "=").

    Here's a little function to match this, using dots (customizable).
    <?php
    function parse_ini_file_multi($file, $process_sections = false, $scanner_mode = INI_SCANNER_NORMAL) {
    $explode_str = '.';
    $escape_char = "'";
    // load ini file the normal way
    $data = parse_ini_file($file, $process_sections, $scanner_mode);
    if (!    $process_sections) {
    $data = array($data);
    }
    foreach (    $data as $section_key => $section) {
    // loop inside the section
    foreach ($section as $key => $value) {
    if (    strpos($key, $explode_str)) {
    if (    substr($key, 0, 1) !== $escape_char) {
    // key has a dot. Explode on it, then parse each subkeys
    // and set value at the right place thanks to references
    $sub_keys = explode($explode_str, $key);
    $subs =& $data[$section_key];
    foreach (    $sub_keys as $sub_key) {
    if (!isset(    $subs[$sub_key])) {
    $subs[$sub_key] = [];
    }
    $subs =& $subs[$sub_key];
    }
    // set the value at the right place
    $subs = $value;
    // unset the dotted key, we don't need it anymore
    unset($data[$section_key][$key]);
    }
    // we have escaped the key, so we keep dots as they are
    else {
    $new_key = trim($key, $escape_char);
    $data[$section_key][$new_key] = $value;
    unset(    $data[$section_key][$key]);
    }
    }
    }
    }
    if (!    $process_sections) {
    $data = $data[0];
    }
    return     $data;
    }
    ?>

    The following file:
    <?php
    /*
    [normal]
    foo = bar
    ; use quotes to keep your key as it is
    'foo.with.dots' = true

    [array]
    foo[] = 1
    foo[] = 2

    [dictionary]
    foo[debug] = false
    foo[path] = /some/path

    [multi]
    foo.data.config.debug = true
    foo.data.password = 123456
    */
    ?>

    will result in:
    <?php
    parse_ini_file_multi    ('file.ini', true);

    Array
    (
    [    normal] => Array
    (
    [    foo] => bar
    [foo.with.dots] => 1
    )
    [array] => Array
    (
    [    foo] => Array
    (
    [    0] => 1
    [1] => 2
    )
    )
    [    dictionary] => Array
    (
    [    foo] => Array
    (
    [    debug] =>
    [    path] => /some/path
    )
    )
    [    multi] => Array
    (
    [    foo] => Array
    (
    [    data] => Array
    (
    [    config] => Array
    (
    [    debug] => 1
    )
    [    password] => 123456
    )
    )
    )
    )
    ?>
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    dschnepper at box dot com
    9 years ago
    The documentation states:
    Characters ?{}|&~!()^" must not be used anywhere in the key and have a special meaning in the value.

    Here's the results of my experiments on what they mean:

    ; | is used for bitwise OR
    three = 2|3

    ; & is used for bitwise AND
    four = 6&5

    ; ^ is used for bitwise XOR
    five = 3^6

    ; ~ is used for bitwise negate
    negative_two = ~1

    ; () is used for grouping
    seven = (8|7)&(6|5)

    ; ${...} is used for grabbing values from the environment, or previously defined values.
    path = ${PATH}
    also = ${five}

    ; ? I have no guess for
    ; ! I have no guess for
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    YAPs
    8 years ago
    This function for save ini files

    <?php
    function array_to_ini($array,$out="")
    {
    $t="";
    $q=false;
    foreach(    $array as $c=>$d)
    {
    if(    is_array($d))$t.=array_to_ini($d,$c);
    else
    {
    if(    $c===intval($c))
    {
    if(!empty(    $out))
    {
    $t.="\r\n".$out." = \"".$d."\"";
    if(    $q!=2)$q=true;
    }
    else     $t.="\r\n".$d;
    }
    else
    {
    $t.="\r\n".$c." = \"".$d."\"";
    $q=2;
    }
    }
    }
    if(    $q!=true && !empty($out)) return "[".$out."]\r\n".$t;
    if(!empty(    $out)) return $t;
    return     trim($t);
    }

    function     save_ini_file($array,$file)
    {
    $a=array_to_ini($array);
    $ffl=fopen($file,"w");
    fwrite($ffl,$a);
    fclose($ffl);
    }
    ?>
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    info () gaj ! design
    8 years ago
    Not mentioned in the documentation, this function acts like include:

    "Files are included based on the file path given or, if none is given, the include_path specified. If the file isn't found in the include_path, include will finally check in the calling script's own directory and the current working directory before failing."

    (At least for PHP 7; have not checked PHP 5.)
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    kieran dot huggins at rogers dot com
    22 years ago
    Just a quick note for all those running into trouble escaping double quotes:

    I got around this by "base64_encode()"-ing my content on the way in to the ini file, and "base64_decode()"-ing on the way out.

    Because base64 uses the "=" sign, you will have to encapsulate the entire value in double quotes so the line looks like this:

    varname = "TmlhZ2FyYSBGYWxscywgT04="

    When base64'd, your strings will retain all \n, \t...etc... URL's retain everything perfectly :-)

    I hope some of you find this useful!

    Cheers, Kieran
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    Justin Hall
    18 years ago
    This is a simple (but slightly hackish) way of avoiding the character limitations (in values):

    <?php
    define    ('QUOTE', '"');
    $test = parse_ini_file('test.ini');

    echo     "<pre>";
    print_r($test);
    ?>

    contents of test.ini:

    park yesterday = "I (walked) | {to} " QUOTE"the"QUOTE " park yesterday & saw ~three~ dogs!"

    output:

    <?php
    Array
    (
    [    park yesterday] => I (walked) | {to} "the" park yesterday & saw ~three~ dogs!
    )
    ?>
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    goulven.ch AT gmail DOT com
    17 years ago
    Warning: parse_ini_files cannot cope with values containing the equal sign (=).

    The following function supports sections, comments, arrays, and key-value pairs outside of any section.
    Beware that similar keys will overwrite one another (unless in different sections).

    <?php
    function parse_ini ( $filepath ) {
    $ini = file( $filepath );
    if (     count( $ini ) == 0 ) { return array(); }
    $sections = array();
    $values = array();
    $globals = array();
    $i = 0;
    foreach(     $ini as $line ){
    $line = trim( $line );
    // Comments
    if ( $line == '' || $line{0} == ';' ) { continue; }
    // Sections
    if ( $line{0} == '[' ) {
    $sections[] = substr( $line, 1, -1 );
    $i++;
    continue;
    }
    // Key-value pair
    list( $key, $value ) = explode( '=', $line, 2 );
    $key = trim( $key );
    $value = trim( $value );
    if (     $i == 0 ) {
    // Array values
    if ( substr( $line, -1, 2 ) == '[]' ) {
    $globals[ $key ][] = $value;
    } else {
    $globals[ $key ] = $value;
    }
    } else {
    // Array values
    if ( substr( $line, -1, 2 ) == '[]' ) {
    $values[ $i - 1 ][ $key ][] = $value;
    } else {
    $values[ $i - 1 ][ $key ] = $value;
    }
    }
    }
    for(     $j=0; $j<$i; $j++ ) {
    $result[ $sections[ $j ] ] = $values[ $j ];
    }
    return     $result + $globals;
    }
    ?>

    Example usage:
    <?php
    $stores     = parse_ini('stores.ini');
    print_r( $stores );
    ?>

    An example ini file:
    <?php
    /*
    ;Commented line start with ';'
    global_value1 = a string value
    global_value1 = another string value

    ; empty lines are discarded
    [Section1]
    key = value
    ; whitespace around keys and values is discarded too
    otherkey=other value
    otherkey=yet another value
    ; this key-value pair will overwrite the former.
    */
    ?>
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    simon dot riget at gmail dot com
    12 years ago
    .ini files or JSON file format as it is also known as, are very useful format to store stuff in. Especially large arrays.

    Strangely enough there is this nice function to read the file, but no function to write it.

    So here is one.

    Use it as: put_ini_file(string $file, array $array)

    <?php
    function put_ini_file($file, $array, $i = 0){
    $str="";
    foreach (    $array as $k => $v){
    if (    is_array($v)){
    $str.=str_repeat(" ",$i*2)."[$k]".PHP_EOL;
    $str.=put_ini_file("",$v, $i+1);
    }else
    $str.=str_repeat(" ",$i*2)."$k = $v".PHP_EOL;
    }
    if(    $file)
    return     file_put_contents($file,$str);
    else
    return     $str;
    }
    ?>
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    theking2(at)king.ma
    1 year ago
    To make the content available in every corner of you application I use a user defined constant. $SETTINGS. It is initialized like this
    <?php

    define    ( 'SETTINGS", parse_ini_file('settings.ini', true) );

    ?>
    With the proper settings.ini file you can now do stuff like
    <?php
    $db = new \PDO(
    "mysql:host={SETTINGS['    db']['host']};dbname={SETTINGS['db']['name']};charset=utf8",
    SETTINGS['    db']['user'],
    SETTINGS['    db']['pass'], [\PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION
    ]
    );
    ?>

    Make sure to hide your settings.ini file on a website with for instance
    <?php
    <FilesMatch "\.(?:ini|htaccess)$">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    </FilesMatch>
    ?>
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    eciruam35 at gmail dot com
    1 year ago
    fix a little bug (here) in function put_ini_file:

    function put_ini_file($config, $file, $has_section = false, $write_to_file = true){
    $fileContent = '';
    if(!empty($config)){
    foreach($config as $i=>$v){
    if($has_section){
    $fileContent .= "\n[$i]".PHP_EOL.put_ini_file($v, $file, false, false);
    }
    else{
    if(is_array($v)){
    foreach($v as $t=>$m){
    //--->>> Here $fileContent .= "-->$i[$t] = ".(is_numeric($m) ? $m : '"'.$m.'"').PHP_EOL;
    $fileContent .= "$i"."[] = ".(is_numeric($m) ? $m : '"'.$m.'"').PHP_EOL;
    }
    }
    else $fileContent .= "$i = ".(is_numeric($v) ? $v : '"'.$v.'"').PHP_EOL;
    }
    }
    }

    if($write_to_file && strlen($fileContent)) return file_put_contents($file, $fileContent, LOCK_EX);
    else return $fileContent;
    }
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    manngo
    1 year ago
    Securing your .ini file:

    “ini files are generally treated as plain text by web servers and thus served to browsers if requested. That means for security you must either keep your ini files outside of your docroot or reconfigure your web server to not serve them. Failure to do either of those may introduce a security risk.”

    Alternatively, you can save you file as:

    stuff.ini.php

    add this to the beginning:

    ;<?php die('go away'); ?>

    The semicolon at the beginning is treated as comment, so this line has no effect on the ini file.

    Since the file has a .php extension, it will run through the PHP interpreter if you attempt to access this file directly, and the php block will be processed and exit.

    The file extension has no ill effect on the parse_ini_file() function, and the .ini part is, of course, a matter of taste.
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    jbricci at ya-right dot com
    9 years ago
    This core function won't handle ini key[][] = value(s), (multidimensional arrays), so if you need to support that kind of setup you will need to write your own function. one way to do it is to convert all the key = value(s) to array string [key][][]=value(s), then use parse_str() to convert all those [key][][]=value(s) that way you just read the ini file line by line, instead of doing crazy foreach() loops to handle those (multidimensional arrays) in each section, example...

    ini file...... config.php

    <?php

    ; This is a sample configuration file
    ; Comments start with ';', as in php.ini

    [first_section]
    one = 1
    five     = 5
    animal     = BIRD

    [second_section]
    path = "/usr/local/bin"
    URL = "http://www.example.com/~username"

    [third_section]
    phpversion[] = "5.0"
    phpversion[] = "5.1"
    phpversion[] = "5.2"
    phpversion[] = "5.3"

    urls[svn] = "http://svn.php.net"
    urls[git] = "http://git.php.net"

    [fourth_section]

    a[][][] = b
    a    [][][][] = c
    a    [test_test][][] = d
    test    [one][two][three] = true

    ?>

    echo parse_ini_file ( "C:\\services\\www\\docs\\config.php" );

    results in...

    // PHP Warning: syntax error, unexpected TC_SECTION, expecting '=' line 27 -> a[][][] = b

    Here it simple function that handles (multidimensional arrays) without looping each key[][]= value(s)

    <?php

    function getIni ( $file, $sections = FALSE )
    {
    $return = array ();

    $keeper = array ();

    $config = fopen ( $file, 'r' );

    while ( !     feof ( $config ) )
    {
    $line = trim ( fgets ( $config, 1024 ) );

    $line = ( $line == '' ) ? ' ' : $line;

    switch (     $line{0} )
    {
    case     ' ':
    case     '#':
    case     '/':
    case     ';':
    case     '<':
    case     '?':

    break;

    case     '[':

    if (     $sections )
    {
    $header = 'config[' . trim ( substr ( $line, 1, -1 ) ) . ']';
    }
    else
    {
    $header = 'config';
    }

    break;

    default:

    $kv = array_map ( 'trim', explode ( '=', $line ) );

    $kv[0] = str_replace ( ' ', '+', $kv[0] );

    $kv[1] = str_replace ( ' ', '+', $kv[1] );

    if ( (     $pos = strpos ( $kv[0], '[' ) ) !== FALSE )
    {
    $kv[0] = '[' . substr ( $kv[0], 0, $pos ) . ']' . substr ( $kv[0], $pos );
    }
    else
    {
    $kv[0] = '[' . $kv[0] . ']';
    }

    $bt = strtolower ( $kv[1] );

    if (     in_array ( $bt, array ( 'true', 'false', 'on', 'off' ) ) )
    {
    $kv[1] = ( $bt == 'true' || $bt == 'on' ) ? TRUE : FALSE;
    }

    $keeper[] = $header . $kv[0] . '=' . $kv[1];
    }
    }

    fclose ( $config );

    parse_str ( implode ( '&', $keeper ), $return );

    return     $return['config'];
    }

    // usage...

    $sections = TRUE;

    print_r ( $config->getIni ( "C:\\services\\www\\docs\\config.php" ), $sections );

    ?>
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