Question

I’ve been working on this but haven’t found any solution yet. I need to parse such string into associative array (PHP)

Result: ssl_card_number=35****0000 ssl_exp_date=1212
ssl_amount=33.55 ssl_invoice_number=0 ssl_description=
ssl_company=Some Company ssl_first_name=John ssl_last_name=Cater
ssl_avs_address=Test St. ssl_address2= ssl_city=Sandy ssl_state=Utah
ssl_avs_zip=84075 ssl_country=United States ssl_phone=
ssl_email=[e-mail] ssl_result=0
ssl_result_message=APPROVED
ssl_txn_id=00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000
ssl_approval_code=123456 ssl_cvv2_response=P ssl_avs_response=X
ssl_account_balance=0.00 ssl_txn_time=03/14/2012 06:58:27 PM

This string is what’s coming from Merchant Service (the one above contains fake data) so I need to parse it out and reach the values like this

$card_number = $parsed["ssl_card_number"];

How can I accomplish it? Note: All the keys start with ssl_ it can be helpful somewhere maybe.

Answer 1

$string = 'ssl_card_number=35****0000 ssl_exp_date=1212 ssl_amount=33.55 ssl_invoice_number=0 ssl_description= ssl_company=Some Company ssl_first_name=John ssl_last_name=Cater ssl_avs_address=Test St. ssl_address2= ssl_city=Sandy ssl_state=Utah ssl_avs_zip=84075 ssl_country=United States ssl_phone= ssl_email=[e-mail] ssl_result=0 ssl_result_message=APPROVED ssl_txn_id=00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000 ssl_approval_code=123456 ssl_cvv2_response=P ssl_avs_response=X ssl_account_balance=0.00 ssl_txn_time=03/14/2012 06:58:27 PM';

$result = array();
$arr = preg_split('/\s+ssl_/', $string);
foreach ($arr as $l) {
        $tmp = explode('=', $l, 2);
        $result['ssl_' . $tmp[0]] = $tmp[1];
}
print_r($result);