Question

I have been trying to get this to work and can’t.

I have a string like pop.2,rundo.5,moti.3 and I am trying to get the pop, rundo, and moti into a min with an already populated associative array function.

The final result should look like or mirror,

$min = min($user['pop'], $user['rundo'], $user['moti']);

So far I have

$items = 'pop.2,rundo.5,moti.3';
// EXPLODE MINUS ITEMS
$minus = explode(',', $items);
// GET MINUS ITEMS AMOUNT
foreach($minus as $item) {
     $itemMinus[] = explode('.', $item);
}

This is as far as I got and am now stuck. I have tried several ways of doing it but to no avail.

I know I can get the values like so,

$itemMinus[0][0] // pop
$itemMinus[1][0] // rundo
$itemMinus[2][0] // moti

But I need to dynamically generate it as I could be putting in strings that have more values such as youdo.3,gate.3,hiya.4,moti.0,yellow.2.

Any ideas and thanks.

Answer 1

You’re nearly there. Use list() to get the key and value:

$itemsMinus = array();
$items = 'pop.2,rundo.5,moti.3';
// EXPLODE MINUS ITEMS
$minus = explode(',', $items);
// GET MINUS ITEMS AMOUNT
foreach($minus as $item) {
    // Add to the array by key
    list($key, $value) = explode(".", $item); 
    $itemsMinus[$key] = $value;
}

print_r($itemsMinus);
Array
(
    [pop] => 2
    [rundo] => 5
    [moti] => 3
)