Question

I have some data which I have decode by using base64_decode. After the decode I got values like this:

{ 
    "quantity" = "1"; 
    "product-id" = "gigaplex.subscription.monthly"; 
    "item-id" = "421702921"; 
    "version-external-identifier" = "4000187"; 
    "purchase-date" = "2011-08-09 18:38:52 Etc/GMT"; 
    "app-item-id" = "421702836"; 
    "transaction-id" = "30000011473303"; 
    "original-purchase-date" = "2011-08-09 18:38:52 Etc/GMT"; 
    "original-transaction-id" = "30000011473303"; 
    "bid" = "com.gigaplex.gigaplexHD"; 
    "bvrs" = "1.4"; 
}

but my problem is I can’t extract the specified value from this string. Please give some suggestion to extract this…

Answer 1

Convert it to json with a couple of str_replace functions then decode it :

<?php

$testval = '{ 
   "quantity" = "1"; 
   "product-id" = "gigaplex.subscription.monthly"; 
   "item-id" = "421702921"; 
   "version-external-identifier" = "4000187"; 
   "purchase-date" = "2011-08-09 18:38:52 Etc/GMT"; 
   "app-item-id" = "421702836"; 
   "transaction-id" = "30000011473303"; 
   "original-purchase-date" = "2011-08-09 18:38:52 Etc/GMT"; 
   "original-transaction-id" = "30000011473303"; 
   "bid" = "com.gigaplex.gigaplexHD"; 
   "bvrs" = "1.4";}';

$testval = str_replace('";','",',$testval); // replace the colons
$testval = str_replace(' = ',' : ',$testval);  // replace the equals
$testval = substr($testval,0,-2) . '}';  // remove the final comma

var_dump(json_decode($testval));

http://codepad.org/kOc862aD

** works but im sure can be improved