[SOLVED] String Manipulation Help

[Cenron]

Hey guys I have a php file that looks like this

 

<?php
/*
load="1"
menu_item="General"
menu_url="general.php"
*/
?>

 

 

Now my question is, I want to use that as a set of general configuration so I want to be able to read the file find for example load and read the value thats assigned to it

 

so like something like this

 

load="1"

 

$should_be_loaded = read_file_and parse("load"); 

 

that would return 1;

 

any ideas guys.

 

Hope i explained it well enough.

[Rojay]

thats easy

 

the firs file should look like this

 

$load = 1;

$menu_item="General"

 

 

then in the other file use

include("file_path");

[Cenron]

ya but theres other stuff in that file that goes on that I really dont want included like that....cause all those are just switches that people can turn on or off to keep the file from being loaded as a module.

[Rojay]

well you can put them in XML format and use SimpleXML to load them

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php

[Barand]

That's pretty much an  ini file format if you lose the quotes

<?php
$config = parse_ini_file('myfile.txt');

echo $config['menu_url'];
?>