Change Plain Text To JSON Array - php

Question

I am getting the following data from a file_get_contents php://input
transfer_date:2018-02-14 content:1000_102eabca374092d1e97daf0bf52e9d count:1
transfer_date:2018-02-13 content:1000_1022e2297c8e9e1a18743182e4f265 count:0
transfer_date:2018-02-13 content:1000_10254e35fda57121d48bd71693c500 count:0.5
transfer_date:2018-02-12 content:102ead3122a4c8742bff97fcc46b38 count:0.5
transfer_date:2018-02-12 content:1000_102ee58d8e12eadbce86d526607164 count:0.5
Any ideas on how to turn this into a json array?
I want the data in format
"transfer_date":"2018-02-14","content":"123445585989898","count":"1"
so I can run it through a for each.
I have tried on the values but it only gets me halfway there and I can keep using find replace but there must be another way no?:
//$datatwo = str_replace('transfer_date: '"transfer_date":"',"$datatwo");

Answer 1

You can use regex to get not-space symbols before and after colon
$arr = array_map(function($x) {
if (preg_match_all('/(\S+):(\S+)/',$x, $m)) {
return array_combine($m[1], $m[2]);
}
}, file('php://stdin', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES));
echo json_encode($arr, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
demo

Answer 2

i'm not sure, but i guess this would work for you.
<?php
$input = file('php://stdin', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
$transfers = [];
foreach($input as $line) {
$transfer=[];
// break the white space between key=value so each key/value get added alone
$parts = explode(' ',$line);
foreach($parts as $part) {
// separate the key and value
$values=explode(':',$part);
$transfer[ $values[0] ] = $values[1] ?? null;
}
// add to the result
$transfers[]= $transfer;
}
// print json encoded result
echo json_encode($transfers);

Answer 3

Simpliest you could do if the there are only spaces between fields and colons as key/value separator:
$data = ''; //your data
$data = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $data); //remove carriage return
$lines = array_filter(explode("\n", $data)); //split your data by new line and filter empty lines
$rows = [];
foreach ($lines as $line) {
$fields = explode(' ', $line); //explode the content of a line by space to get all fields
foreach ($fields as $field) {
$fieldParts = explode(':', $field); //explode a field to get key and value
$rows[$fieldParts[0]] = $fieldParts[1]; //assign it to your result array
}
}
var_dump(json_encode($rows));