make hashs escapable in configfile #1282

If a hash is needed in config files (parsed by confToHash) it can be escaped
as \# (backslash hash) to avoid having it treated as comment start

darcs-hash:20071218141030-7ad00-4c0c7317f2f049537d8ed02b47c6c2a18627ee86.gz

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/inc/confutils.php b/inc/confutils.php
index 8133dc209..bf1791e76 100644
--- a/inc/confutils.php
+++ b/inc/confutils.php
@@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ function confToHash($file,$lower=false) {
   if ( !$lines ) return $conf;
 
   foreach ( $lines as $line ) {
-    //ignore comments
-    $line = preg_replace('/(?<!&)#.*$/','',$line);
+    //ignore comments (except escaped ones)
+    $line = preg_replace('/(?<![&\\\\])#.*$/','',$line);
+    $line = str_replace('\\#','#',$line);
     $line = trim($line);
     if(empty($line)) continue;
     $line = preg_split('/\s+/',$line,2);