Question

I am working with a project that is coded in php OOP. I have created a form that post back to itself and gets those values and puts them into a predefined array format. I say predefined because this is the way the previous coder has done it:

$plane->add(array('{"name":"Chris","age":"22"}','{"name":"Joyce","age":"45"}'));

So when I get my values from the $_POST array, I thought it would be simple, so I tried

$plane->add(array("{'name':$customerName,'age':$customerAge}"));

This is triggering an error though, it seems it’s passing the actual name of the variable in as a string instead of it’s value. So how do I pass those values in to that function. While we are on it, can someone explain what kind of array that is, I thought arrays were always $key=>value set, not $key:$value.

Answer 1

That looks like json:
http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/e1f358d408a53a8133d3d2e5876ef46876dff8c6

Code:

$array = json_decode('{"name":"Chris","age":"22"}');
print_r( $array );

And you can convert an array to json with:

 $array = array("Customer" => "John");
 $arrayJson = json_encode( $array);

So to put it in your context:

$array = array("Name"=>"Chris", "age" => 22);
$array2 = array("Name"=>"John", "age" => 26);
$plane->add(array( json_encode( $array),json_encode( $array2) );