php parse_ini_file oop & deep

Question

I would like to make use of somehting like [parse_ini_file][1].

Lets say for instance I have a boot.ini file that I will load for further procedure:

Answer 1

Well, you need to postprocess the parse_ini_file result array then.

$ini_array = parse_ini_file("bootstrap.ini");

$ini = new stdclass;
foreach ($ini_array as $key=>$value) {
    $c = $ini;
    foreach (explode(".", $key) as $key) {
        if (!isset($c->$key)) {
            $c->$key = new stdclass;
        }
        $prev = $c;
        $c = $c->$key;
    }
    $prev->$key = $value;
}

Update Hackety-Hack. Now using an extra $prev to unset the last object level again. (A for loop to detect the last $key would have worked better).

If you want to use the array syntax and the object syntax, then replace the new stdclass with new ArrayObject(array(), 2);.