mooeypoo Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Hey guys, I have a probably-silly question, but it's annoying the crap out of me. I'm reading through a config file that has the construct of: var $lala = "value"; var $lilili = "second value"; I want to read through this file line by line and output it to a second line with different values. It's really not a problem, I'm doing it already, my only problem is that whenever I want to read whether or not there's "$lala", the script seems to treat this as the inner VARIABLE $lala instead of just a text string, and since this isn't a variable in my script it returns null. Same happens when I try to output the string, IE I try to write into the new file a *text* line var $lala = "mynewvalue"; The code, again, thinks this means its supposed to search for $lala and output its *value* instead of just printing out the string as is. what do I do? How do I convince PHP to read and write this as a simple text instead of a variable? Here's the code I'm using: $origFile = "../configuration.php"; $origFileHandle = fopen($origFile, 'r') or die("Can't Open original configuration.php File"); $fullFile = Array(); while (!feof($origFileHandle)) { $line = fgets($origFileHandle); if (strstr($line,"$host = ")) { $line = ' var $host = '.$dbhost; } if (strstr($line,"$user = ")) { $line = ' var $user = '.$Properties[2]['value']; } if (strstr($line,"$db = ")) { $line = ' var $db = '.$Properties[1]['value']; } if (strstr($line,"$password = ")) { $line = ' var $password = '.$Properties[3]['value']; } if (strstr($line,"$sitename = ")>0) { $line = ' var $sitename = '.$Properties[4]['value']; } } fclose($origFileHandle); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 On the $line line use the function htmlentities() http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Or simply enclose it in single quotes instead of double quotes. PHP does not parse variables in single-quoted strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D H Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Cap'n beat me to the punch. Double quotes interpolate, single quotes don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 /me had forgotten that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 I knewwwww it was a stupid thing I forgot. Bah! Thanks! BTW... that reminds me -- is this also the difference between "echo" and "print" ? and if not, uh, what is the difference? anyone knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 echo is a language construct, print() is a function IIRC... gimmie a sec... Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedHere we go... http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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