ID: 33981
User updated by: mdc at hotmail dot co dot uk
Reported By: mdc at hotmail dot co dot uk
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: WinXP/Win200
PHP Version: 5.0.4
New Comment:
How about two (or more?) switches of some sort for this function which
allow the "illegal" characters to be treated as either expressions or
text only? I read your reply and agree there should be something in the
documentation about this (There was a comment and bug report about this
a while back but was said to have been fixed).
After reading your reply I did have a flick through some ini files on
my PC and quite a few ini files used brackets as part of the key
name.... Nearly all the ini files I checked had brackets in the
*value*. I havent checked to see if this problem is apparant for the
value, but either way, there might be a good call for allowing them to
be used.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Previous Comments:
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[2005-08-03 17:35:40] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's because &, !, {, }, (, ), and ~ are considered as parts of an
expression and can't appear in keynames.
It should be documented, probably.
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[2005-08-03 17:14:21] mdc at hotmail dot co dot uk
Description:
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When using the parse_ini_file function to parse through a specific
section of an ini file ("Applications Packages") the parsing stops
whenever the following characters are present in the key()[]
Example of ini file:
--
[Applicantions Packages]
Winamp.ini=INSTALLED
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.ini=INSTALLED
Windows (test) Media Player 10 Series.ini=INSTALLED
Office XP Security Patch KB830346.ini=INSTALLED
Acrobat Reader 6.0.ini=INSTALLED
The desired entries in the ini file are output'd to screen as expected
until the parsing stops at line 3 and the browser shows:
"Warning: Error parsing \\server1\file.ini on line 3 in
c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test\results.php on line 85"
(Code snippets included in the next section).
I've tried writing additional code to copy the contents to a temporary
file, and replace the "illegal" characters with blank spaces, but thats
quite inefficent as the ini file can be several hundred lines long and I
only need to parse the 20 or 30 lines within it.
I've read similar posts regarding this problem, but they're said to be
fixed.
Reproduce code:
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Line 85 of the code is:
$settings_array = parse_ini_file($inifile, TRUE);
Also relevant, looking for the section "Applications Packages"
--
$applications = array_filter($applicationsArray['Applications
Packages'], "isInstalledApplications");
--
This is the value to be matched to the keys.
--
function isInstalledApplications($var) {
return($var == 'INSTALLED' );
}
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Output code. $station is part of the ini file name, which makes up
$inifile eg, station1.ini. Could be tidier, I know ;-)
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<?php
foreach($applications as $key => $value)
{
$station = str_replace('.ini', '', $key);
$key = str_replace('.ini', '', $key);
?>
--
Expected result:
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The following items are installed on <workstation name here>
Winamp
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10
Windows (test) Media Player 10 Series
Office XP Security Patch KB830346
Acrobat Reader 6.0
--
Actual result:
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--
The following items are installed on <workstation name here>
"Warning: Error parsing \\server1\file.ini on line 3 in
c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test\results.php on line 85"
Winamp
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10
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