PHP. How to store empty arrays in ini files if you parse them with function parse_ini_string()?

Question

For example I tried so:

parse_ini_string('
    abc[] =
');

but the element abc is not empty, there is 1 empty string in it

DaveRandom · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-07 15:27:54Z

4

You can't store empty arrays in an INI file directly. The INI format is not expressive enough - the syntax above describes an array push, and as such it pushes an empty element onto the array.

A workaround, albeit ugly, is something like this:

$parsed = parse_ini_file('file.ini');

foreach ($parsed as $k => &$v) {
  if ($v === array('')) {
    $v = array();
  }
}

answered May 7, 2012 at 15:27

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