Created a new global function, zini, the Zsh INI reader. New breaking changes to config.example. Updated qsgen2 using zini and mapped old values to the new ones temporarily.

config.example

@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
-# Place this file in your project directory
+; Place this file in your project directory
 
-# This is the name of your site
-export site_name="The Site Name"
-# This is the site tag or subtitle
-export site_tagline="The Site Tagline"
-export site_url="http://www.example.com"
-# At the moment, there is only 1 theme - minimal
-export theme=minimal
-# This is the directory where you create your pages and blogs.
-# Your project working directory
-export project_dir=/path/to/your/project
-# This is where qsgen2 outputs the parsed and generated files
-export www_root=/path/to/output/directory
-# Do you want the blog on your front page or not?
-# Values are true for yes and false for no
-export blog_in_index=false
-# Expected values are 'native' or 'markdown'
-export generator=native
-# Do you want to generate a sitemap.xml file?
-export sitemap=true
-# Language for messages from qsgen2
-# en_US, es_ES, nb_NO
-export language=nb_NO
+[site]
+; This is the name of your site
+name = "The Site Name"
+; This is the tagline
+tagline = "The Site Tagline"
+; This is the URL of your site
+url = "https://www.example.com"
+; This is where your HTML files go
+root = /path/to/www/dir
+; The theme of your site
+theme = theme_name
+; sitemap or not: true or false
+sitemap = true
+; Do you want the blog to appear on the front page
+; true = yes and false = no
+blog = true
+
+[project]
+; This is where you work before you generate the outpu
+root = /path/to/working/project
+; Languages: en_US, en_UK, es_ES, nb_NO, fr_FR
+lang = en_US
+; Use QStags (native) or Markdown (markdown)
+generator = native

include/common/zini

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# zini function to parse INI files and store their content in an associative array
+zini() {
+    local ini_path="$1"
+    typeset -gA config
+
+    # Check if the file exists
+    if [[ ! -f "$ini_path" ]]; then
+        echo "Configuration file not found: $ini_path"
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    local current_section=""
+    local line key value composite_key
+
+    # Read the INI file line by line
+    while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n $line ]]; do
+        line=$(echo $line | xargs)  # Trim whitespace
+
+        # Skip empty lines and comments
+        [[ -z "$line" || "$line" == \;* ]] && continue
+
+        # Detect section headers
+        if [[ "$line" == \[*\]* ]]; then
+            current_section="${line:1:-1}"
+        else
+            # Parse key-value pairs
+            key=${line%%=*}
+            value=${line#*=}
+            key=$(echo $key | xargs)  # Trim key
+            value=$(echo $value | xargs)  # Trim value
+
+            # Store in associative array with 'section_key' format
+            composite_key="${current_section}_${key}"
+            config[$composite_key]="$value"
+        fi
+    done < "$ini_path"
+
+    # echo "Configuration loaded."
+}

qsgen2

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ globaldebug=false
 fpath=(${HOME}/bin/include/common ${HOME}/bin/include/qsgen2/lang $fpath)
 # In this case, let's load the 'include' function
 autoload include
+autoload zini
 
 # Including some colors to the script
 include common/colors
@@ -37,7 +38,8 @@ echo "${magenta}${blue_bg} ${QSGEN} ${end}${bold_white}${blue_bg}${VERSION} ${en
 # Check for, and source, the config file for this specific website
 if [[ -f $(pwd)/config ]]; then
   if (${globaldebug}); then echo "${red}Config file found and sourced${end}\n${yellow} - $(pwd)/config${end}"; fi
-	builtin source $(pwd)/config
+	# builtin source $(pwd)/config
+  zini $(pwd)/config
 else
 	echo "${red}Cannot find configuration file.${end}"
 	echo "${yellow} - Please create the file 'config' in your project directory.${end}"
@@ -45,6 +47,19 @@ else
 	exit
 fi
 
+# Let's define the new config values to the old names until
+# I've had time to change everything in the script.
+site_name="${config[site_name]}"
+site_tagline="${config[site_tagline]}"
+site_url="${config[site_url]}"
+theme="${config[site_theme]}"
+sitemap="${config[site_sitemap]}"
+www_root="${config[site_root]}"
+blog_in_index="${config[site_blog]}"
+project_dir="${config[project_root]}"
+language="${config[project_lang]}"
+generator="${config[project_generator]}"
+
 # Load language as defined in config
 typeset -A qsgenlang
 lang_found=false