API15:JRegistryFormatINI/objectToString

Description

Converts an object into an INI formatted string Unfortunately, there is no way to have ini values nested further than two levels deep. Therefore we will only go through the first two levels of the object.

Syntax

objectToString(&$object, $params)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
&$object		$object Data Source Object
$params		$param Parameters used by the formatter

Returns

string INI Formatted String

Defined in

libraries/joomla/registry/format/ini.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.registry.format.ini' );

Source Body

function objectToString( &$object, $params )
{

        // Initialize variables
        $retval = '';
        $prepend = '';

        // First handle groups (or first level key/value pairs)
        foreach (get_object_vars( $object ) as $key => $level1)
        {
                if (is_object($level1))
                {
                        // This field is an object, so we treat it as a section
                        $retval .= "[".$key."]\n";
                        foreach (get_object_vars($level1) as $key => $level2)
                        {
                                if (!is_object($level2) && !is_array($level2))
                                {
                                        // Join lines
                                        $level2         = str_replace('|', '\|', $level2);
                                        $level2         = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n"), '\\n', $level2);
                                        $retval         .= $key."=".$level2."\n";
                                }
                        }
                        $retval .= "\n";
                }
                elseif (is_array($level1))
                {
                        foreach ($level1 as $k1 => $v1)
                        {
                                // Escape any pipe characters before storing
                                $level1[$k1]    = str_replace('|', '\|', $v1);
                                $level1[$k1]    = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n"), '\\n', $v1);
                        }

                        // Implode the array to store
                        $prepend        .= $key."=".implode('|', $level1)."\n";
                }
                else
                {
                        // Join lines
                        $level1         = str_replace('|', '\|', $level1);
                        $level1         = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n"), '\\n', $level1);
                        $prepend        .= $key."=".$level1."\n";
                }
        }

        return $prepend."\n".$retval;
}

Examples

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