Generating valid .zcfg config-file with php

[malstroem]

Hi there,
We are using ZOOM search with our own php document-management suite.
I know would like to offer customers the ability to customize some of the ZOOM search settings in a web-interface, using php and mysql.
These customers don´t have access to the webserver and will not be able to manage the search engine using the ZOOM search indexer GUI.

What i want is, to enable them for example:
- to enable/disable and create their own categories
- to enable/disable icons
- to change some of the layout of their search-pages and so on...

Therfefore i need to change/rewrite the .zcfg configfile for their index on demand.
I think i pretty much understand what changes in the configfile are up to - my problem rather is to generate a valid utf-16 file using php as scripting lanugage...
Any Ideas out there?

[malstroem]

To anybody who might find this useful!
You CAN create your own zoom search config files using php...
After some hours of useless fileconversions I just found the right solution:
1. store the config-string in a variable ($ascii).
2. convert the ascii string into utf-16 using this line

$unicode = iconv('ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-16LE', $ascii); 

3. write the new string ($unicode) into the config-file
4. you´re done

[Ray]

You might find it helpful to know that a full specification of the ZCFG file format is available as part of our Zoom SDK package.

The ZCFG file format specification is a 40 page document which includes a list of all available parameters and values, a definition of the file format, information on the password encoding, and provided to help people who are generating their own ZCFG files.