Question

Hi this is the code i am following in my project.

$reports = $this->curl->simple_get('url');
echo is_array($reports)?"Is Array":"Not Array";exit;

It’s giving Not Array as output.

I want to convert that into associative array.

Answer 1

The data you are getting is probably not an array, but a string containing an array structure, e.g. output by print_r(). This kind of data will not automatically be converted back into a PHP array.

To use this you can use a similar solution as brought out here:
Create variable from print_r output

it describes the print_r_reverse function that’s brought out in php.net page.

how ever – this is kind of an ugly hack. I would suggest to change the page content and use json_encode() in the “url” page, and parse the content using json_decode()