Stripping characters before '=' delimiter in PHP

[r31griffo]

G'day everyone,

I'm trying to make a webpage that will display the bash variables I have in a file. These variables are used in a bash script that is run from on my server.

The file looks like this:

SERVER=canfs01
SHARE=public
USERNAME=guest
PASSWORD=

I am hoping to get the following output so I can put it in individual input text boxes:

canfs01
public
guest

The closest I've come to achieving this is the following in php:

 <?php
$fh = fopen("test.conf", "r");
?>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Server name: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo $line; ?>
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Share name: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo $line; ?>
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
User name: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo $line; ?>
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
password: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo $line; ?>
<br> 

I can't figure out how to strip the variable $line of everything before (and including) '='. I'm using PHP Version 5.2.6-1.

Any help and pointers you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Griffo

[Irithori]

Maybe this is what you want
PHP: parse_ini_file - Manual

[r31griffo]

I had a look at that page but I'm not sure how I could use that to achieve my outcome.

There are a couple of other commands that I've been playing with:
preg_match
parse_str

but so far I've had no luck

[Schmidt]

It's quite simple. Just use 'split' call twice. Read all data into single string and at first split it by lines

 $lines = split("\n", $all_data_as_string);

and then split each line by "=" delimiter inside foreach

foreach($lines as $str) { $pair = split("=", $str); }

just catch $pair[1] every time

[r31griffo]

Thank you for your suggestion, but I found the answer just before I saw your post...I got the idea from a post on PHP: trim - Manual page

 <?php
function trimString($input, $string){
        $input = trim($input);
        $startPattern = "/^($string)+/i";
        $endPattern = "/($string)+$/i";
        return trim(preg_replace($endPattern, '', preg_replace($startPattern,'',$input)));
}
?>
 
<?php
$fh = fopen("test.conf", "r");
?>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Server name: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo trimString($line, "SERVER="); ?> >
 
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Share name: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo trimString($line, "SHARE="); ?> >
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Username: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo trimString($line, "USERNAME="); ?> >
<br>
 
<?php
$line = fgets($fh);
?>
Password: <input type='text' name='HOST' value=<?php echo trimString($line, "PASSWORD="); ?> >
<br> 

I know it's not very pretty at the moment, but I'll put this in a table that I'll create out of HTML, it will look pretty good when I'm done...

I have 1 last question though, how to I change the output of the PASSWORD field to something like *****, but if there is no password I'd like the field to come up empty...any ideas?

[r31griffo]

never mind, I found that if I change the 'type' in the input type field to 'password' I get the result I'm looking for eg:

Password: <input type='password' name='HOST' value=<?php echo trimString($line, "PASSWORD="); ?> > 

[zombykillah]

Well I prefer a conventional programm Stile and would define following:

 $write["SERVER"]="Server name: ";
$write["SHARE"]="Share name: ";
$write["USERNAME"]="Username: ";
 
$fh = fopen("test.conf", "r");
 
while (($line = fgetcsv($fh,100,"=")) == true){
echo $write[$line[0]]."<input type='text' name='HOST' value='".trim($line[1])."'>\n<br>";
}
fclose($fh); 
  

I am not sure the "while (($line = fgetcsv($fh,100,"=")) == true)" will work ... would need to investigate more into it again ...

And to tell you the truth ... I would change the names of the fields ... like:

 echo $write[$line[0]]."<input type='text' name='".$line[0]."' value='".trim($line[1])."'>\n<br>"; 
  

That way you can easily make an script writing the values back:

 foreach ($_POST as $idname => $value){
if (isset($write[$idname])){
 fwrite($fh, $idname."=".$value."\n");
}
} 
  

[r31griffo]

I like your idea using the array in the naming of the input box and value in one go. I will research fgetcsv and see if I can get this to work...This would automatically increase in size if I add more variables to the file down the track...interesting, you have me thinking.