Parsing INI

zingbats

I have the following INI file (stolen from php.net/parse_ini_file).

[first_section]
one=1
five=5
animal=BIRD
[second_section]
path=/usr/local/bin
URL="http://www.example.com/~username"

(that is called test.ini). I also have a PHP file that reads it. Using, once again, the code stolen from their site:

<?
$ini_array = parse_ini_file("test.ini", true);
?>

BUT! I want it to print one "variable" or control from the ini file. So, I simply put

<?
$ini_array = parse_ini_file("test.ini", true);
echo $ini_array['one'];
?>

In the hope it would print "1" as the ini file says... Instead, i get the error:

Notice: Undefined index: one in path\testing\index.php on line 3

mtimdog

You set the section parsing to true when calling
parse(....file.., true

Therefore, it would print out 1 if you put

echo $ini_array['first_section']['one'];

since it grouped it by sections.

zingbats

Ok, how would I do a foreach saying

Foreach section in the array?

mtimdog

foreach ($ini_array as $section)
echo $section['one'];

Note: this may give (probably) warning/Notice since 'one' is not defined in the second section.(which you may not see if you don't have all your error reporting turned all the way up)

zingbats

That doesnt each category. I want it to echo like:

[first_section]
and
[second_section]

zingbats

See, what happens is:

If I use the code:

<?
$ini_array = parse_ini_file("test.ini", TRUE);
print_r($ini_array);
?>

Then I get this in the source code:

Array
(
    [first_section] => Array
        (
            [one] => 1
            [five] => 5
            [animal] => BIRD
        )

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

)

So what I need to do, is echo the actual "NAMES" of the array in the array. If that makes sense. Is there a way to do that?