Extends INI parsing and writing for PHP
This class allows to read and write ini files. It translates ini files into
associative PHP arrays and translates PHP arrays into ini files. It supports
sectioning as well as a kind of subsectioning.
Colons (:) are considered separators for sub-sections and are represented
as multi-dimensional arrays. For instance, the following array:
$array = [
'Alphred' => [
'log_level' => 'DEBUG',
'log_size' => 10000,
'plugins' => [ 'get_password' => 'my_new_function' ]
]];will be represented as
[Alphred]
log_level = DEBUG
log_size = 10000
[Alphred:plugins]
get_password = my_new_functionIf you are concerned, then make sure that \r\n is removed from the array values
before they move into the INI file, as they may break them.
All of these are static functions. So, to use:
$ini_file = Alphred\Ini::read_ini( '/path/to/workflow.ini' );That's it.
To write an ini file, just do:
Alphred\Ini::write_ini( $config_array, '/path/to/workflow.ini' );read_ini(string $file, boolean $exception = true) : array|boolean
Parses an INI
This is a slightly better INI parser in that will read a section title of 'title:subtitle' 'subtitle' as a subsection of the section 'title'.
| string | $file | path to the ini file to read |
| boolean | $exception | whether or not to throw an exception on file not found |
an array that represents the ini file
step_back(array $array) : array
Slightly unflattens an array
So, flatten_array goes one step too far with the flattening, but I don't know how many levels down I need to flatten (2, 97?), so we just flatten all the way and then step back one level, which is what this function does.
| array | $array | a flattened array |
a slightly less flat array
is_assoc(array $array) : boolean
Checks if an array is associative
Shamelessly stolen from http://stackoverflow.com/a/14669600/1399574
| array | $array | an array |
whether it is associative