Question

I have a name="value" type string that looks like…

{user type="active" name="james green" id="45" group="active users"}

I need a generic function that will parse this type of string extracting all of the name/value pairs as an array from this format (always within double quotes and each param sepertated by a space, enclosed in {}) as well as the initial opening word (user in this case).

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

basically

 preg_match_all('~(\w+)="(.+?)"~', $string, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 foreach($matches as $m)
     $array[$m[1]] = $m[2]