Home/ Questions/Q 7490381
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-29T15:35:36+00:00

I make a curl request to a server which returns javascript and I need

  • 0

I make a curl request to a server which returns javascript and I need to get each of the addNewEvent functions returned into a PHP array. So I figured I would use preg_match_all.

Unfortunately regex is not my strong point and I keep getting it wrong. Could someone please help me out with this?

I have this so far:

'/addNewEvent\(\{(.*)\}\);/s'

This is a snippet from the javascript containing the functions I need. The rest of the javascript does contain if statements with braces:

addNewEvent({id:2, type:1,
start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
desc:"test", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
comment:"this is a tes\\\'st\\\"",
labelColor:\'#FF9281\', numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0});
addNewEvent({id:3, type:1,
start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
desc:"test 2", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
comment:"",
labelColor:\'#849CE7\', numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0});

Thanks in advance.

Edit 13:23

Ideally I would like to have returned an array containing the JSON objects from inside the javascript function calls:

array(
    [0] => '{id:2, type:1,
        start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
        end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
        startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
        endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
        desc:"test", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
        comment:"this is a tes\\\'st\\\"",
        labelColor:\'#FF9281\', numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0}',
    [1] => '{id:3, type:1,
        start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
        end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
        startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
        endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
        desc:"test 2", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
        comment:"",
        labelColor:\'#849CE7\', numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0}'
);
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Here is a full test (I’ve replaced some single quotes by double quotes to use heredoc syntax) :

    $pattern='/addNewEvent\(\{(.*)\}\);/sU';

$subject='addNewEvent({id:2, type:1,
start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
desc:"test", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
comment:"this is a tes\\\"st\\\"",
labelColor:\"#FF9281\", numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0});
addNewEvent({id:3, type:1,
start: new Date(2012,02-1,10,09,00),
end:new Date(2012,02-1,10,10,00), 
startRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,9,0),
endRounded:new Date(2012,1,10,10,0),
desc:"test 2", allDay:0, recurring:0, reminder:0,
comment:"",
labelColor:\"#849CE7\", numOverlaps:0, overlapNumber:0});';

print '<pre>';
if(preg_match_all($pattern,$subject,$matches)){
    print_r($matches[1]);
}
    • 0