Shellvar-Parser

Shellvar-Parser, is a small group of PHP functions that parse a text file containing shell variables.  This is intended to allow for config files that may be included by common shell scripts (Bourne, Bash, zsh) or be parsed in PHP by Shellvar-Parser.  It does not presently support all possible syntax, see below for supported features.

Shellvar-Parser was written in something of a hurry, in the middle of some other projects.  I may substantially re-write it sometime, because the code is ugly.

Features

• Simple. Or at least I'm trying hard to make it simple.
• Whole-line and in-line comments starting with a # are supported.
• Simple substitutions are supported, ie: VAR2=$VAR1 (more complex substitutions such as VAR2=$VAR1$VAR3 are not presently supported).

Support

You can ask for help with Shellvar-Parser on the mailing list.

License, Documentation:

View the current: README • manpage • License (GPL)

Version history:

• v1.0 February 6, 2014

Requirements, Download(s):

Requires PHP 5.2 or greater with PCRE.  Can use POSIX if available.

• Download Shellvar-Parser v.1.0 (tar.gz) (zip)
• Git Repository

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