How to parse file with PHP - php

Question

I have this file, I cant figure out how to parse this file.
type = 10
version = 1.2
PART
{
part = foobie
partName = foobie
EVENTS
{
MakeReference
{
active = True
}
}
ACTIONS
{
}
}
PART
{
part = bazer
partName = bazer
}
I want this to be a array which should look like
$array = array(
'type' => 10,
'version' => 1.2,
'PART' => array(
'part' => 'foobie',
'partName' => 'foobie,
'EVENTS' => array(
'MakeReference' => array(
'active' => 'True'
)
),
'ACTIONS' => array(
)
),
'PART' => array(
'part' => 'bazer',
'partName' => 'bazer'
)
);
I tried with preg_match but that was not a success.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Why not use a format that PHP can decode natively, like JSON?
http://php.net/json_decode
$json = file_get_contents("filename.txt");
$array = json_decode($json);
print_r($array);

Answer 2

Here is my approach.
First of all change Im changing the { to the line before.
Thats pretty easy
$lines = explode("\r\n", $this->file);
foreach ($lines as $num => $line) {
if (preg_match('/\{/', $line) === 1) {
$lines[$num - 1] .= ' {';
unset($lines[$num]);
}
}
Now the input looks like this
PART {
part = foobie
Now we can make the whole thing to XML instead, I know that I said a PHP array in the question, but a XML object is still fine enough.
foreach ($lines as $line) {
if (preg_match('/(.*?)\{$/', $line, $matches)) {
$xml->addElement(trim($matches[1]));
continue;
}
if (preg_match('/\}/', $line)) {
$xml->endElement();
continue;
}
if (strpos($line, ' = ') !== false) {
list($key, $value) = explode(' = ', $line);
$xml->addElementAndContent(trim($key), trim($value));
}
}
The addElement, actually just adds a to a string
endElement adds a and addElementAndContent doing both and also add content between them.
And just for making the whole content being a XML object, im using
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml->getXMLasText());
And now $xml is a XML object, which is so much easier to work with :)