Question

I pass with jquery ajax as data array the following structure

 $_POST['data'][0] = 'results[]=stein&results[]=schere&results[]=stein&results[]=schere&results[]=stein'

 $_POST['data'][1] = '9b2c1230757e4354b384c5c93e8e8f26'

How do I say to php to interpret $_POST['data'][0] as array. What I would like to get is array(1 =>'stein', 2=>'schere'...)

Answer 1

Use parse_str() — Parses the string into variables

$str = "results[]=stein&results[]=schere&results[]=stein&results[]=schere&results[]=stein";
parse_str($str, $output);

echo $output['results'][0]; // stein

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