DMR password "sometimes" getting empty and mmdvmhost unable to start

[narspt]

This problem is not really new, I did just check why/when it happens and found that it is related to DMRGateway/DMR2YSF/DMR2NXDN password "none", actually it is very easy to reproduce:

• just select DMRGateway/DMR2YSF/DMR2NXDN and apply settings -> this will set password="none" on mmdvmhost ini
• then disable DMR mode and apply settings -> this will set password=none (no quotes)
• apply settings again with DMR mode still disabled -> the unquoted none password will be read as empty value, as none is a special word for parse_ini_file(), then it will set password= on mmdvmhost ini and next time you enable DMR then mmdvmhost will refuse to startup due to empty password

You can either sort it by changing configure.php to ensure password is always quoted (i.e. when applying settings with DMR mode disabled) or just update DMR_Hosts.txt on your server to use any password different than "none" for DMRGateway/DMR2YSF/DMR2NXDN, as I guess any password works for these?

Alternatively... if you have more of these issues with quotes (and I guess you may have some at least with editor pages also...) did you ever consider using parse_ini_file(..., true, INI_SCANNER_RAW) to completely handle ini's without quotes? seeing that sample ini's coming with DV programs also don't have quotes I guess they don't really require it, you probably add them just to be able to read them on php I guess...

[narspt]

I'm closing this because I did check and this is not a problem anymore, actually the password getting blank still happens at pistar level but doesn't cause any problem with relatively recent mmdvmhost versions, because now it uses/requires password only for direct connections to masters.