Search and replace text in a text file

osward

Hi, all

I had made a script that add user account and settings to a ftp server users.ini file using the data from phpnuke_user table.

This works fine for the time being. What I want to do next is to update the set of record in the users.ini file when users update their member info in the phpnuke_user table.

Actually, what I only need to change in the users.ini is the password, rest of the setting won't be changed.

How am I going to search and replace this string in the users.ini file?

I think if I could do this task with the script, this might as well serve as a error checking for existing user before I create the account.

The way I am doing it now is just add the user account set at the end of the users.ini relying that the user won't be duplicate because the phpnuke had checked it for me.

Thanks in advance for the time

Regards,

rontgoff

You could fopen the document and ereg_replace like


ereg_replace("pasword [=] .?", "password = $new_pass", $doc);

Something like this should work. I have not tried this though.

osward

Thanks for the tips rontgoff

I am having a problem with your suggestion because when my user update and/or changed the password in the phpnuke, the script doesn't require the existing password though I can retrieve the existing password before the script locked the user table and update.

I am still facing one problem, what if, there are two users using identical password? In the registion account on phpnuke, the script allows identical password for different user. Therefore, I have to assume the possibility of different user same password.

The user name and password works in pairs for login. At the ftp users.ini, I would need to find the [user name] section and replace the Pass= and the users.ini looks something like this:

[user name]
Login=user name
Pass=user password
Hide Hidden Files=1
Home-Ip=-= All IP Homes =-
RelativePath=1
TimeOut=30

Any idea?

Thanks for the time

Regards,

rontgoff

That is a very difficult problem. Do you have multiple users in that ini file.

The way I would do it is ussing a database. I would keep all the users info in the database and then call that info later like this.

<?php

$username = username(from database)
$password = password(from Database)
//also pull all the users info like timeout etc

?>

Also make each user ini like this
<! user 5 !>
user info
<! / user 5 !>

the number being their number in the db.
Then all you have to do is replace everything between <! user 5 !> or completly erase it and write new lines at the end of the file.

osward

The users.ini in question is the ini file the ftp server reads when I was loaded. All users details such as login name, password, directory, etc were seperate in section. Therefore, your suggestion of using a database or naming them as user 1, user2 is not feasible.

I've found a script to work with ini file and it has functions to do what I needed. I can write a script to include this file to use those functions or call it as an object.

However, I still have difficult to integrate it with the phpnuke script.

Regards,

rontgoff

I am unfamilar with PHPnuke but I am glad you found what you needed you may want to post the link of the script for others who need the same information.

osward

The file is called ini.php that had most of the functions needed to change the content of ini files and the link for the file is http://www.converted.net/chris/phpini/.

A very useful script to deal with ini files and you can either include the file in your script or use it as a class if you want.

Hope this help others of the same need

Regards,