get variable from string

[jonzy]

I have a text file like this:

// Some comment here
$variable = "something";
$variable2 = "another";

I want to read the file with PHP, and strip the variable from the string, grabbing everything between the quotes. I would then use that as a default value in a HTML form that a user can edit. Once the user submits the form, I would want to rewrite the new value to that text file.

Is this easily done with a function?
I'm having trouble extracting the value of the variable and ignoring the comment lines. :queasy:

[TheDefender]

Not exactly sure what you are wanting to do... Are you trying to get the variables and their values? If that's the case, maybe look into the [man]eval()[/man] function?!? Sorry if that's way off base. It's hard to figure out exactly what you are wanting to do here.

[jonzy]

I'm trying to make it so an Admin can edit the script configuration file without having to download/upload via FTP each time. Sorry if my example is not too good.

I'm trying to read the script configuration settings, show them in a HTML form so the user can edit them, and then they get saved back into the file.

Any ideas?