Question

I have a PHP script with curl’s an external site which returns a javascript array that looks like this:

array[0]=’some stuff’

array[1]=’some more stuff’

I would like to take this and convert it into a PHP array so I can reference it later down in the script for echoing. Is this the way to go about doing it? Is there a better way?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If it’s a String array, you can use regular expressions:

with this:

preg_match( "\[(\d+)\]='(.*)'" , $curlString , $matches )

you can obtain the index, and the value:

i.e, response of curl:

 array[0] = 'abc';
 array[1] = 'xyz';

before preg_match, the value of $matches was:

 $matches[0] == '0';
 $matches[1] == 'abc';
 $matches[1] == '1';
 $matches[2] == 'xyz';

And with something like this:

for($i = 0; $i < len($matches);$i +=2)
     $finalArray[$matches[i]] = $matches[i+1];

the $finalArray has the same values of “array”

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