Parsing a weird malformed ini - php

Question

I have a really broken/weird INI file that looks like this.
RowID=11668
Name=SCNA DaCe
PPA
Relation=Family
RowID=31999
Name=PCA
RowID=11593
Name=CRMLEVEL
Relation=Family
If possible, end up as
array("11668" => array("name"=> "SCNA DaCe", "relation"=>"Family", "ppa"=>true));
Linebreaks are separated based on RowID instead of a proper [section] and I have no idea how I can read this, any tips on where to start?
There is inconsistent casing, certain things don't have values (like PPA by itself on a line), not all key=vals are defined for each case.

Answer 1

For something like this, an array of objects comes in handy.
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<?php // RAY_temp_dylan.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo '<pre>';
$str = <<<END
RowID=11668
Name=SCNA DaCe
PPA
Relation=Family
RowID=31999
Name=PCA
RowID=11593
Name=CRMLEVEL
Relation=Family
END;
// SIMULATE READING WITH file()
$arr = explode(PHP_EOL, $str);
// COLLECT THE NORMALIZED DATA HERE
$out = array();
$obj = new stdClass;
// USE AN ITERATOR ON EACH ROW
foreach ($arr as $row)
{
// SKIP BLANK LINES
$row = trim($row);
if (empty($row)) continue;
// FOR EACH ROWID CREATE A NEW OBJECT
if (FALSE !== strpos($row, 'RowID'))
{
// SAVE THE OLD OBJECT
$out[] = $obj;
$obj = new stdClass;
$obj->RowID = end(explode('=', $row));
}
// FOR REMAINING ELEMENTS THAT ARE KEY-VALUE PAIRS
if (FALSE !== strpos($row, '='))
{
$key = current(explode('=', $row));
$val = end(explode('=', $row));
$obj->$key = $val;
}
// FOR REMAINING ELEMENTS THAT ARE NOT KEY-VALUE PAIRS
else
{
$obj->$row = TRUE;
}
}
// SAVE LAST ELEMENT AT EOF
$out[] = $obj;
// DISCARD THE ZERO "STARTER" ELEMENT
unset($out[0]);
var_dump($out);

Answer 2

You would have to roll your own custom solution to parse this INI file as PHP's built in parse_ini_file is based on PHP's own php.ini format constraints. So it has to be valid PHP.
For your purposes if the requirements are as simple as key/value pairs on each line with the exception of the one-off stranded value as a default boolean true then you could do something like the following.
function my_parse_ini($ini_file_name) {
$ini = file($ini_file_name, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$return = array();
$row = null;
foreach ($ini as $key => $value) {
if ($value == '') {
$row = null;
continue;
}
#list($k, $v) = explode('=',$value);
if ($v === null) {
$v = true;
}
if ($row === null) {
$row = $v;
$return[$row] = array();
continue;
}
$return[$row][$k] = $v;
}
return $return;
}
/* usage */
var_dump(my_parse_ini('test.ini'));
This would output the following for your sample ini file....
array(2) {
[11668]=>
array(4) {
["Name"]=>
string(3) "PCA"
["PPA"]=>
bool(true)
["Relation"]=>
string(6) "Family"
["RowID"]=>
string(5) "31999"
}
[11593]=>
array(2) {
["Name"]=>
string(8) "CRMLEVEL"
["Relation"]=>
string(6) "Family"
}
}