Question

function test()
{   
$content = "lang=en]text en|lang=sp]text sp";
$atts = explode('|', $content);
}

What I’m trying to do is to allow myself to echo $param[en] to get “text en”, $param[sp] to get “text sp”. Is that possible?

• the $content is actually from a database record.

Answer 1

$param = array();
$langs = explode('|', $content);
foreach ($langs as $lang) {
    $arr = explode(']', $lang);
    $key = substr($arr[0], 5);
    $param[$key] = $arr[1];
}

This is if you are sure $content is well-formatted. Otherwise you will need to put in additional checks to make sure $langs and $arr are what they should be. Use the following to quickly check what’s inside an array:

echo '<pre>'.print_r($array_to_be_inspected, true).'</pre>';

Hope this helps