How to emulate parse_ini_string in PHP5.2

If you have ever wanted to parse a ini file from "not-a-file" you may have
found the parse_ini_string function, but it only comes in PHP version 5.3 or newer.

Here you have a piece of code that has two options, the easy one, if parse_ini_string is present, use it, if not it creates a temporary file, put some content on it, parse_ini_file on that file and then delete the file.

 if (function_exists('parse_ini_string'))
 {// php 5.3
   $return_ini_array=parse_ini_string($ini_file_string);
 }
 else
 {// php anterior a 5.3
   $temp_file_name = tempnam('/tmp', 'temp_lang_');
   $handle = fopen($temp_file_name, "w");
   fwrite($handle, $ini_file_string);
   fclose($handle);
   $return_ini_array=parse_ini_file($temp_file_name);
   unlink($temp_file_name);
 }

It gets an string with the ini-file-format called $ini_file_string and returns an array with the parsed elemements of the input string ($return_ini_array).

We'll that's not perfect, but it works !

• parse_ini_file manual
• parse_ini_string manual

PD: Com desestressa programar, algu vol anar a visitar clients mentre jo em quedo programant a la oficina ?

:)