Parse phpinfo() for module settings

This function parses the phpinfo output to get details about a PHP module. /** parse php modules from phpinfo */ function parsePHPModules() { ob_start(); phpinfo(INFO_MODULES); $s = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $s = strip_tags($s,'<h2><th><td>'); $s = preg_replace('/<th[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/th>/',"<info>\\1</info>",$s); $s = preg_replace('/<td[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/td>/',"<info>\\1</info>",$s); $vTmp = preg_split('/(<h2>[^<]+<\/h2>)/',$s,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); $vModules = array(); for ($i=1;$i<count($vTmp);$i++) { if (preg_match('/<h2>([^<]+)<\/h2>/',$vTmp[$i],$vMat)) { $vName = trim($vMat[1]); $vTmp2 = explode("\n",$vTmp[$i+1]); foreach ($vTmp2 AS $vOne) { $vPat = '<info>([^<]+)<\/info>'; $vPat3 = "/$vPat\s*$vPat\s*$vPat/"; $vPat2 = "/$vPat\s*$vPat/"; if (preg_match($vPat3,$vOne,$vMat)) { // 3cols $vModules[$vName][trim($vMat[1])] = array(trim($vMat[2]),trim($vMat[3])); } elseif (preg_match($vPat2,$vOne,$vMat)) { // 2cols $vModules[$vName][trim($vMat[1])] = trim($vMat[2]); } } } } return $vModules; } /** get a module setting */ function getModuleSetting($pModuleName,$pSetting) { $vModules = $this->parsePHPModules(); return $vModules[$pModuleName][$pSetting]; } // Sample Usage getModuleSetting('gd','GD Version'); // returns "bundled (2.0.28 compatible)" Sample Output

[gd] => Array
(
  [GD Support] => enabled
  [GD Version] => bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
  [FreeType Support] => enabled
  [FreeType Linkage] => with freetype
  [FreeType Version] => 2.1.9
  [T1Lib Support] => enabled
  [GIF Read Support] => enabled
  [GIF Create Support] => enabled
  [JPG Support] => enabled
  [PNG Support] => enabled
  [WBMP Support] => enabled
  [XBM Support] => enabled
)

[date] => Array (
  [date/time support] => enabled
  [Timezone Database Version] => 2005.14
  [Timezone Database] => internal
  [Default timezone] => America/Los_Angeles
  [Directive] => Array (
     [0] => Local Value
     [1] => Master Value
  )
  [date.timezone] => Array (
     [0] => no value
     [1] => no value
  )
 )