You could just serialize $param and write it out to a file then read it
back in and unserialize it... simpler in PHP... not sure whether it's
more efficient or not.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Durwood Gafford wrote:
> I would like to read and write user-settings to a keyword-value file and be
> able to extract it. The following code works fine but i wondered if there
> was a more elegant/direct way of doing this.
>
> -Durwood
>
> $file = "user_settings.txt";
>
> // Read user settings from file if it exists, otherwise set to defaults and
> // save them ... a separate method exists for users to change their
> settings.
> if ($is_readable($file)) {
> $parm = read_defaults($file);
> } else {
> $parm['method'] = "bsort";
> $parm['tsize'] = 200;
> $parm['per_row'] = 5;
> $parm['sortby'] = "last_name";
> $parm['order'] = "ascending";
> write_defaults($file, $parm);
> }
>
> // Read keyword-value pairs from file into array
> function read_defaults($default_file) {
> $fp = file($default_file);
> foreach ($fp as $line) {
> $line = trim($line);
> list ($key, $value) = explode(" ", $line);
> $param[$key] = $value;
> }
> return $param;
> }
>
> // Write keyword-value pairs from array
> function write_defaults($default_file, $param) {
> $fp = fopen($default_file, "w");
> while (list($key, $value) = each ($param))
> fwrite ($fp, "$key $value\n");
> fclose($fp);
> }
>
>
>
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