Need Some Help With Parse_Ini_File

[Dutch]

Hello,

 

I'm having some trouble with parse_ini_file... Let me start off with saying that I have none/very little experience with PHP, but I'm trying to learn. Also, I have looked around on the internet and not even that could help me.

 

Anyway, the thing I want to achieve is:

 

There's an .ini file of which the contents I want outputted into a page on my website.

 

The .ini file is called status.ini, and has these dynamic values inside:

 

[1]
Status=none
Players=0/8
Nominated=Position 1 undecided - Position 2 undecided - Position 3 undecided

[2]
Status=CTF
Players=7/8
Nominated=Position 1 map1 - Position 2 map2 - Position 3 undecided

 

I want that to display on my webpage something like:

 

(Server 1:) Status: none - Players: 0/8 - Nominated: undecided - undecided - undecided

(Server 2:) Status: CTF - Players: 7/8 - Nominated: map1 - map2 - undecided

 

Can someone tell me how to achieve this? Or hint me into the right direction?

[Pikachu2000]

Where are you stuck? Post your code, any errors, and describe what it's doing/not doing that it shouldn't/should be doing.

[Dutch]

// The name and path of our configuration file

$file="status.ini" ;

// Lets check if the file exists and is readable by our script

if (file_exists($file) && is_readable($file))

{

//yay... the file is readable and exists

//lets parse it into an array

$status=parse_ini_file($file);

//At this point, all the data from the ini file is

//stored in the $settings array... just for the sake of

//convenience you can print it out using

//print_r($settings);

//assign different values from the file to different variables

$status=$status["status"];

$players=$status["players"];

$nominated=$status["nominated"];

 

//echo it! or use it in any other way you wish

echo "$status $players $nominated";

}

else

{

// If the configuration file does not exist or is not readable, DIE php DIE!

die("Sorry, the $file file doesnt seem to exist or is not readable!");

}

 

 

Then it gives me this error:

 

Sorry, the status.ini file doesnt seem to exist or is not readable!

Edited October 31, 2012 by Dutch

[Pikachu2000]

Perhaps you can post it without all that bbcode? It's pretty much unreadable.

[Dutch]

Perhaps you can post it without all that bbcode? It's pretty much unreadable.

 

Done. I don't know why it showed all the BBCode.

[Pikachu2000]

According to the logic in the script, either the file doesn't exist, or it isn't readable. Does the script reside in the same directory as the file? If not, it's a path issue . . .

[Barand]

your ini file is split into sections so instead of

$status=parse_ini_file($file);

 

use

$status=parse_ini_file($file, true);

 

Look at the contents now with

echo '<pre>', print_r($status, 1), '</pre>';

[PFMaBiSmAd]

I would recommend that you separate the tests for file_exists() and is_readable() into two separate conditional statements, each with its own specific error message, so that you will know why the script cannot read the file.

[Dutch]

Still getting the same error...

 

Sorry, the status.ini file doesnt seem to exist or is not readable!

 

 

// The name and path of our configuration file
$file="status.ini" ;
// Lets check if the file exists and is readable by our script
if (file_exists($file) && is_readable($file))
{
//yay... the file is readable and exists
//lets parse it into an array
$status=parse_ini_file($file, true);
//At this point, all the data from the ini file is
//stored in the $settings array... just for the sake of
//convenience you can print it out using
//print_r($settings);
//assign different values from the file to different variables
$status=$status["status"];
$players=$status["players"];
$nominated=$status["nominated"];

//echo it! or use it in any other way you wish
echo '<pre>', print_r($status, 1), '</pre>';
}
else
{
// If the configuration file does not exist or is not readable, DIE php DIE!
die("Sorry, the $file file doesnt seem to exist or is not readable!");
}

 

Is what I currently have...

Edited October 31, 2012 by Dutch

[Barand]

I would recommend that you separate the tests for file_exists() and is_readable() into two separate conditional statements, each with its own specific error message, so that you will know why the script cannot read the file.

 

Well, you certainly took that advice

[Dutch]

Well, you certainly took that advice

 

Well, I tried, but got a Template Parse Error on line 177.

 

 

175: // Lets check if the file exists and is readable by our script

176: if (file_exists($file)

177: if (is_readable($file))

178: {

 

I'll assume I'm doing it wrong though.

Edited October 31, 2012 by Dutch

[Pikachu2000]

As I said earlier . . .

 

According to the logic in the script, either the file doesn't exist, or it isn't readable. Does the script reside in the same directory as the file? If not, it's a path issue . . .

[Dutch]

As I said earlier . . .

 

It's an external hosted file, but I'm leaving the path out of my posts for security reasons.

 

In my script it actually says:

 

 

// The name and path of our configuration file

$file="http://www.domain.com/status.ini" ;

[Pikachu2000]

Well then, there's your problem. $file is a URL string.

Edited October 31, 2012 by Pikachu2000

[Dutch]

Well then, there's your problem. $file is a URL string.

 

Does it not work at all with external files then?

[Barand]

You could try

 

file_get_contents() + parse_ini_string()

[Dutch]

You could try

 

file_get_contents() + parse_ini_string()

 

Where in the script would I put those?

[Barand]

$status=parse_ini_file($file, true);

 

becomes

 

$status=parse_ini_string(file_get_contents($file), true);

[Dutch]

Still getting the same error.

 

Sorry, the status.ini file doesnt seem to exist or is not readable!

[Barand]

Not a lot that we can do about that.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The two functions - file_exists() and is_readable() DON'T work with the HTTP protocol. You can simply use file_get_contents() and then test if the result was a false value or not.