Revert "config manager: let PHP parse the config file"

This reverts commit b8f41ef0bac4e82cb3b02cd318efaddbaaeb1a78.

We had good reasons for parsing the file ourselves. For example to keep
expressions like 7*60*60*24 intact.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php b/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php
index e4a638eb0..e71a7e5f9 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/config/settings/config.class.php
@@ -139,13 +139,32 @@ if (!class_exists('configuration')) {
     function _read_config($file) {
 
       if (!$file) return array();
-      if (!file_exists($file)) return array();
 
       $config = array();
 
       if ($this->_format == 'php') {
-          include($file);
-          $config = ${$this->_name};
+
+        if(@file_exists($file)){
+            $contents = @php_strip_whitespace($file);
+        }else{
+            $contents = '';
+        }
+        $pattern = '/\$'.$this->_name.'\[[\'"]([^=]+)[\'"]\] ?= ?(.*?);(?=[^;]*(?:\$'.$this->_name.'|$))/s';
+        $matches=array();
+        preg_match_all($pattern,$contents,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+
+        for ($i=0; $i<count($matches); $i++) {
+
+          // correct issues with the incoming data
+          // FIXME ... for now merge multi-dimensional array indices using ____
+          $key = preg_replace('/.\]\[./',CM_KEYMARKER,$matches[$i][1]);
+
+          // remove quotes from quoted strings & unescape escaped data
+          $value = preg_replace('/^(\'|")(.*)(?<!\\\\)\1$/s','$2',$matches[$i][2]);
+          $value = strtr($value, array('\\\\'=>'\\','\\\''=>'\'','\\"'=>'"'));
+
+          $config[$key] = $value;
+        }
       }
 
       return $config;