Reading values from a file which contains associative array PHP - php

Question

I need to read the content of a file called orders.log with PHP and use the variables. The log file is stored like this:
Array
(
[time] => 2099-99-99 00:00:00
[gateway] => Paypal
[gatewayOK] => Yes
[gatewayTransactionId] => XXXXXXX
[POST] => Array
(
[mc_gross] => 9.99
[protection_eligibility] => Eligible
[address_status] => confirmed
[payer_id] => XXXXX
[address_street] => XXXXX
[payment_date] => 00:00:00 Nov 11, 2018 PDT
[payment_status] => Completed
[charset] => windows-1252
)
)
I have tried reading it like this:
<?php
$orders=file_get_contents("orders.log");
echo $orders['time'];
echo $myarray[0]['gateway'];
echo $myarray[1]['mc_gross'];
?>
But the result does not work like intended. It throws "A" and "r" . Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This assumes that each entry is 20 lines long, it reads in the log file and the splits it into 20 segments using array_chunk().
It then processes each segment, first splitting the lines by the => using explode() and adding the values to an associative array with the left hand side as the key. You can then use the key to access each value.
$input = file("log.txt", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$orders = array_chunk($input, 20);
foreach ( $orders as $order ) {
$split = [];
foreach ( $order as $line ) {
$info = explode("=>", $line);
if ( count($info) == 2){
$split[trim($info[0]," \t[]")] = trim ($info[1]);
}
}
echo "gateway-".$split['gateway'].PHP_EOL;
echo "mc_gross-".$split['mc_gross'].PHP_EOL;
}
If you wanted a list of all orders...
$input = file("log.txt", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$orders = array_chunk($input, 20);
$orderList = [];
foreach ( $orders as $order ) {
$split = [];
foreach ( $order as $line ) {
$info = explode("=>", $line);
if ( count($info) == 2){
$split[trim($info[0]," \t[]")] = trim ($info[1]);
}
}
$orderList[] = $split;
}
echo "gateway-".$orderList[0]['gateway'].PHP_EOL;
echo "mc_gross-".$orderList[0]['mc_gross'].PHP_EOL;
A third way which doesn't rely on the data being all the same format, this reads on a line by line basis and tries to work out the end of an element itself (just a line containing ))...
$fp = fopen("log.txt", "r");
$orderList = [];
$order = [];
while ( $line = fgets($fp)) {
// Remove extra data after content
$line = rtrim($line);
// If end of order (a line just starting with a ')')
if ( $line == ')' ) {
// Convert order into associative array
$split = [];
foreach ( $order as $line ) {
$info = explode("=>", $line);
if ( count($info) == 2){
$split[trim($info[0]," \t[]")] = trim ($info[1]);
}
}
// Add data to order list
$orderList[] = $split;
$order = [];
}
else {
// Add line to existing data
$order[] = $line;
}
}
print_r($orderList);
fclose($fp);