Here is a snippet from my dhcp web page found on my site below... Not exactly what you want, but could help you start...
// read in the dhcp_map.ini file to map MAC addresses to images $mapFile = "./dhcp_map.ini"; if( $fp = @fopen($mapFile, "r") ) { while( $line = fgets($fp, 1024) ) if ($line{0} != "#") $tempMap .= $line; // strip out # comments } else echo "ERROR: Can't read ".$mapFile."<BR>"; fclose ($fp); $map = explode("\n", $tempMap); //print_r($map); for($i = 0; $i < count($map); $i++) { list($mac, $image, $name) = preg_split("/\s/",$map[$i], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); //if ( array_key_exists($mac, $machine)) $machine[$mac]->setImage($image); if ( isset($machine[$mac]) ) $machine[$mac]->setImage($image); if ( isset($machine[$mac]) && $name != "" && $machine[$mac]->getName() == "") $machine[$mac]->name = $name; } unset($tempMap); unset($map); # "dhcp_map.ini" file # MAC ADDRESS: GIF IMAGE: NAME: 00:09:12:86:48:54 linux LINUX 00:0B:AD:31:AA:A6 tivo Thad's 00:0B:AD:08:38:C3 tivo Daevid's Daevid Vincent http://daevid.com > -----Original Message----- > From: jsWalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] there has to be a better way... > > I need to read (write comes later) from a config file that we > used to handle > manually. > > I'm getting lazy, so I'm writing a web interface for this. > > What I have does this... > - open a given file > - dump entire file into a string > - explode string into an array at the EOL marker > - walk down this new array > - decide if there is anything in current element > - decide if current line is a comment > - split line at '=' into 2 variables > - add new key and value from these variables back into array > - kill original array element > > There must be a better way to do this. > > All this seems a bit over kill to me. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? > > Thanks > > Walter > > This is what I have... > > <?php > > $config = $list . '/home/walter/vmd/config'; > > // Open the file > $handle = fopen ($config, "r"); > > // Read entire file into var > $content = fread($handle, filesize($config)); > > // convert var into array and explode file via line break > $content = split("\r\n", $content); > > // close file > fclose($handle); > > // Loop through file contents array > foreach ($content as $i => $value) > { > // If we have any data in this line > if (! empty ($value)) > { > // If this line is not a comment > if ( $value{0} != '#') > { > list($a, $b) = split("=", $value); > $content[$a] = $b; > } > > // kill original array element > unset($content[$i]); > } > } > > // show me what I have > echo '<pre>'; > echo print_r($content); > echo '</pre>'; > > ?> > > # Sample config file data, just 2 lines from the file... > # > # The "Personal Name" of the list, used in outgoing headers. > # If empty, default is the same as the list's username. > # if explicitly `false', then it is redefined empty. > LIST_NAME="RMT Working Group" > > # The address of the list's admin or owner. > # if explicitly `false', then it is redefined empty. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php