Question

I’m having difficulties parsing a string. This is the structure I have:

"Title":"Avatar","Year":"2009","Rated":"PG-13","Released":"18 Dec 2009","Runtime":"2 h 42 min"

What I want to do is putting every result in an own variable so that I get $title, $year, $runtime and so on in the end.

I know, there’re a lot of different PHP functions for that but after trying numerous of them and not getting the result I wanted, I just need some help.

Answer 1

Because after few modification to your string, you can make it JSON string, by adding trailing { and }. And call json_decode function on modificated string:

$str = '"Title":"Avatar","Year":"2009","Rated":"PG-13","Released":"18 Dec 2009","Runtime":"2 h 42 min"';
$arr = json_decode("{{$str}}", true);  // True to make it array, not object

// $arr contains parsed data

It works, just look at this demo. You can use variables like:

echo $arr["Title"];

But if you really need $title (I don’t suggest to do this) you can use extract function

extract($arr);

And you can access it like:

echo $title;