Reading From a Text File Database

[renv]

Hello All. This is my first post so I sure hope some kind person will have pity on me and help me out. I have a text file with entries as shown below. The text file has about 40 of them. Its actually from the Asterisk sip.conf configuration file in case anyone was wondering.

Anyway I need to extract 2 bits of info from each entry - The persons name and their extension. The point of this is to create a realtime extension list everytime I update this list file that my customer can view online. Unfortunately this cannot be in a real DB or else Id already be done, lol. Can anyone help? Thanks!

;Adam Smith
[201]
type=friend
context=abc
username=201
secret=pass201
callerid=Adam Smith<4072301234>
host=dynamic
nat=yes
qualify=5000
canreinvite=no
dtmfmode=rfc2833
mailbox=201@abc-vm
disallow=all
allow=g729

;Bob Jones
[202]
type=friend
context=abc
username=202
secret=pass202
callerid=Bob Jones<4072301235>
host=dynamic
nat=yes
qualify=5000
canreinvite=no
dtmfmode=rfc2833
mailbox=202@abc-vm
disallow=all
allow=g729

[kows]

you might want to look at parse_ini_file(). it seems like it would do almost exactly what you want, but as you have the actual name of the customer commented and not defined, the keys would be numerical (201, 202).

[renv]

Thank you for your response. I will try that. Actually I would be pulling the persons name from the line
callerid=Bob Jones<4072301235>
I figure I could use regular expressions to filter out only the name. Since every entry is exactly the same I an just pull the text between the = and <. Or at least I think so. I havent gotten that far yet. lol.

[renv]

That function works great. Thank you! I still need to figure out how to sort it but this got most of the work done. Thanks again!