Question

I’m having an issue with finding some way of accepting the data below, and being able to parse it as arrays, etc. in PHP or Python.

$data = array(
    'full_name' => array('name'=>'Full Name', 'type'=>'textarea'),
    'company' => array('name'=>'Organization', 'required'=>true),
}

There are many more fields in that inner array and there isn’t a set order as to how they appear.

Is there any way for me to parse a users input from a textarea and be able to use it as the array that it is? Or any other ideas on what to do with it?

Answer 1

What about using JSON as an input format? That could be parsed easily, and wouldn’t be a security risk.