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JAVAGeek
JAVAGeek

Reputation: 2794

Can I read and write key/values from ini files in PHP just like we do with .properties files in Java?

    Properties prop = new Properties();
    prop.load(new FileInputStream("my.properties"));
    prop.setProperty("name", "my name");
    prop.getProperty("name");

This looks so simple to set and get properties in Java. I searched for same thing in PHP, but didn't find anything useful related to this.

I've read somewhere that

PHP can natively load and parse .ini files using parse_ini_file().

As I just have started learning PHP, I can't find any code that can read write key/value pairs from .ini files in a way as simple as we do in Java with .properties files. How might I do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6448

Answers (2)

alwaysLearn
alwaysLearn

Reputation: 6950

Try this ...

ini files in php contains your configurations .....

the sample file ini will something look like .

    [first_section]
    db = testdb
    host = myhost


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

Now you may get the contents of this file by

      <?php
      $config_array  = parse_ini_file('sample.ini');
      echo "<pre>";
      print_r($config_array);
      echo "</pre>";
      ?>

The output will be something like 

Array
 (
[db] => testdb
[host] => myhost
[path] => /usr/local/bin
[URL] => http://www.example.com/~username
)

you can also get the section names by passing second argument as 'TRUE' in parse_ini_file

$config_array  = parse_ini_file('sample.ini',true);

then output will be 

  Array
 (
   [first_section] => Array
    (
        [db] => testdb
        [host] => myhost
    )

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

)

You can also save the confuguration in array as use it in later stage as suggested by kingkero...

Read more here http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php#78221

Upvotes: 4

kero
kero

Reputation: 10638

In PHP I think it is more common to use files that return an array with configuration (see php.net/include)

config.php

<?php
return array(
    'key1' => 'val1',
    //etc.
);

other file:

<?php
$config = include 'config.php';

Upvotes: 1

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