Question

I have a path like:

/blog/2/post/45/comment/24

Can I have an array depends on what I have on url, like :

$arr = array('blog'=>'2','post'=>'45','comment'=>'24');

But it should depend on variable passed:

/blog/2 should produce $arr = array('blog'=>'2');

Is this possible to create dynamic array?

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

function path2hash($path) {
  // $path contains whatever you want to split
  $chunks = explode('/', $path);

  $result = array();
  for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($chunks) - 1; $i+=2)
    $result[$chunks[$i]] = $chunks[$i+1];

  return $result;
}

You could then use parse_url to extract the path, and this function to turn it into the desired hash.