Pull variables out of a file

[robertaccettura]

I have this pretty ordinary Mozilla like preferences file:

system_pref("system.auto_update", true);
system_pref("data.current_level", 1);
syste_pref("data.current_message", "this is a test, a good one");

Want to be able to extract the value for any given variable.

function readconfig($config, $value){
          $configdat = file("$this->configfile","w");
        for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($configdat); $i++) {
            // Find thee config line
            preg_match ("/$config/i", "$configdat[$i]", $result);
            if (!$result[0])
                continue; 
           		// ???????????????
            } 
} 

Can anyone help me get the rest of the way?

Note the value if a string is in "", and if true/false, or numeric value is not.

How does one do this?

[ednark]

if your not fixed in your style too much you might want to look into the
[man]parse_ini[/man] function and just do things that way

[robertaccettura]

yea, kind of set in my ways.

[DigitalExpl0it]

ive done somthing like this..

add stuff to file

$filename = 'create.txt';
$somecontent = "os=".$osit."&aname=".$_REQUEST[aname]."&hip=".$_REQUEST[host_ip]."&dname=".$_REQUEST[dname]."&dpass=".$pass_it."&duser=".$_REQUEST[db_user]."&table=".$_REQUEST[db_table]."&ext=".$_REQUEST[db_ext]."&thumb=".$thumb."&image=".$image."&base_path=".$base_path;
// Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {
    if (!$fp = fopen($filename, 'a')) {
         print "Cannot open file ($filename)";
         exit;
    }
    // Write $somecontent to our opened file.
    if (!fwrite($fp, $somecontent)) {
       print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
        exit;
   }

then to get info from file

$filename4 = 'create.txt';
$fp4 = fopen($filename4, 'r') or die ("could not open file");
$contents2 = fread($fp4, filesize($filename4));
parse_str($contents4);

echo $thumb."<br>";
echo $image."<br>";
echo $os."<br>";
//etc..

hope this helps..

[robertaccettura]

thanks, decided on something kind of in the middle, gets the job accomplished, with minimal hacking.