[Tutor] Python and PHP config files

[Michael A. Peters]

Hi all-

I'm trying to have python run as a cron in the background to assist in a
php web application.

I need to have the python script be able to get values from a php config
file.
Here's the relative parts of my script so far-

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#!/usr/local/bin/python
PathToConfig = "/var/www/folding_stats/folding.config.php"

import os, sys, urllib
try:
	import MySQLdb
except ImportError, e:
	print "It seems you do not have the python MySQLdb module installed."
	sys.exit(1)

if os.path.isfile(PathToConfig):
	# here is where I read the data I need
	datafile = open(PathToConfig)
	config = datafile.readlines()
	datafile.close()
else:
	print "I can not find your config file."
	print "Please specify its location at"
	print "line 2 of this file."
	sys.exit(1)
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config is now an array containing the php file- but I need to extract info
out of that, and I can't seem to figure out how :(

For example, the lines in the file i need are-

$db_name="foldingathome";
$db_host="localhost";
$db_port="3306";
$db_user="samwise";
$db_password="xyzzy";

I need to find where the php variable for db_name is defined and assign a
python variable for that- such as

db_name = somefunction(config, db_name)
where
somefunction(config, db_name)
would find $db_name= in the config list and then return what's in their.

Anyone know how to do it?

in bourne with shell tools I would do
db_name=`grep "^\$db_name=" filename |cut -d"\"" -f2`

but I'm using python, not bourne :D

Thanks for any help