[Squid44th]

What I would like to do is open my site.config.php file and relplace some of the variables with ones that are gathered in a preferences form.

Example,

site.config.php reads:
<?
DEFINE ("COMPANY_NAME", "Your Company Name");
DEFINE ("COMPANY_ADDRESS", "123 Main Street");
DEFINE ("COMPANY_CITY", "Anytown");
DEFINE ("COMPANY_STATE", "NV");
DEFINE ("COMPANY_ZIP", "99999");
// database settings
DEFINE ("DB_HOST", "localhost");
DEFINE ("DB_NAME", "clientloginutility");
DEFINE ("DB_USER", "root");
DEFINE ("DB_PASS", "");
DEFINE ("DB_PREFIX", "clu_");
// set up database connection
mysql_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS) or die ("could not connect");
mysql_select_db (DB_NAME) or die ( 'Unable to select database! - Please check your database settings in /php/site.config.php');
?>

then in the admin area of the script, there would be a form asking
what is company name ____________ (<- would be an input box)
..
..
..
What is zip code _______________

Then when the submit button is chosen, it would replace the inputted data from admin area into the site.config.php file. Does that make sense, I hope it does...

But the question is....How to accomplish this feat?? I have seen it before but am not that experienced of php coder to pick it out of a script thats already written. Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks in Advance

Squid

[Trevor]

Sounds like a regular expression problem to me. But I do have one question. If you are already hooking up to the database, why not store these values in the database? You could preform a select statement below the db connect statements.

Most servers do allow you to write to files, but then you have to rely on an end users ability to chmod. If I were to try and accomplish this with my current knowledge, this is what I would do.

Please forgive the non-programming format. This is just random thinking.

1. Read in the file
2. Explode the file at "//database settings"
3. Use the form values to re-construct the top of the file.
3. Combine your new data with part[1] of the exploded value.
4. Write the file.

The only think I would be worried about is if something screws up and the file is corrupted. Bye-bye database connection.

Like I said, random thoughts...