Question

I’m just optimising my code and if there is a function that does something like this, i can get rid of my own

There are duplicates for parsing query strings but the string I’m paring is in this format:

$string = "cheese/camel/egg/cream";

is there a php function whereby I can parse this into an associative array?

Lets say if I were to define the array with keys like:

$keys = array( "val1", "val2", "val3", "val4" );

is there a php function to parse the string into these variables? Something like:

$associative_array = magic_function($keys, $string, $delimiter);

to end up with something like this:

array(4) {
      "var1" => "cheese",
      "var2" => "camel",
      "var3" => "egg",
      "var4" => "cream"
}

Answer 1

PHP provides many simple functions, you just have to use them together:

$array = array_combine($keys, explode('/', $string));

Reference: array_combine, explode

More array and string functions.