multi-dimensional array possibly - php

Question

I have two files that I need opened, I'm using php file to read them
$lines = file('/home/program/prog_conf.txt');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
$rows = preg_split('/\s+/', $line);
Followed by:
$lines = file('/home/domain/public_html/base/file2.cfg');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
$rows = preg_split('/=/', $line);
As I work with these two files, I need to pull info from the second one, which I seperated by =, however, I'm not sure this is the best thing to do. I wanted to add data checking from the database. The db details are in the second file like so:
dbname = databasename
dbuser = databaseuser
dbpass = databasepassword
If I echo the $rows[2], I get everything all the information I need on a single line, not on seperate lines. Meaning:
databasename databaseuser databasepassword
How do I split the information up so I can use the entries one by one?

Answer 1

How about:
$lines = file('/home/domain/public_html/base/file2.cfg');
$all_parts = array()
foreach ($lines as $line) {
//explode pulls apart a string based on the first value, so you could change that
//to a '=' if need be
array_merge($all_parts,explode(' ', $line));
}
This would get you all the parts of the file, one at a time, into an array. Which is what I think you wanted.
If not, just explode as needed

Answer 2

Maybe this aproach helps:
First as i see your second file has multiple lines, so what would do is something like this:
Assumin that every key as "db" in common we can do something like this.
$file = fopen("/home/domain/public_html/base/file2.cfg", "rb");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle); // This function return better performance if the file isn't too large.
fclose($file);
// Assuming this is your return from the file
$contents = 'dbname = databasename dbuser = databaseuser dbpass = databasepassword';
$rows = preg_split('/db+/', $contents); // Splinting keys "db"
$result = array();
foreach($rows as $row){
$temp = preg_replace("/\s+/", '', $row); // Removing extract white spaces
$temp = preg_split("/=/", $temp); // Splinting by "="
$result[] = $temp[1]; // Getting the value only
}
var_dump ($result);
I hope this help you can try this code maybe with little modifications but works.