reading a text file with variables into php variables

I have a text file that has a series of variables in it, in the form

var1 = val1
var2 = val2
...

I am new to php and would like to read this file and parse it. The result being having the variables to use as global php variables.

The text file will have the parameters to control how the php displays information on the screen.

read it using file() and then parse it with a regex to get the var and value out, then use extract() to put them all into php (or eval) as valid variables

could you point me to an example? I am not sure how to use regex() or extract()

thanks

did you read the manual on those 2 functions? preg_match extract

I can help you with the regex but show me what you got, extract should be easy enough to figure out.