I'm developing a PHP app and I have a problem by converting a string array into an object array. I tried to force casting my string into an array by using (array), but it won't works. Here is my string (debug):
string '['method'=>'post','action'=>'#']' (length=32)
As you can see, it's a perfect array into a string and i want to convert that string.
My question is simple, does PHP has a function to convert directly a string into an array (I think no) or i have to convert my string by using explode?
From php 5.4 you can simply eval:
eval("\$f=['method'=>'post','action'=>'#'];");
var_dump($f);
For olders you have to fix the string a bit, change the 1st "[" to "array(" and the last "]" to ")".
The question is a bit duplicate of How to create an array from output of var_dump in PHP?
Here is how you define an array.
But before writing code, please take a look at manuels
$arrayName = array('method' => 'post', 'action' => '#');
The output will read
array (size=2)
'method' => string 'post' (length=4)
'action' => string '#' (length=1)
You can use preg_split and foreach() to make this work:
$str = "['method'=>'post','action'=>'#']";
$splitArray = preg_split("/[,']+/", $str);
foreach ($splitArray as $k => $val) {
if ($val == '=>') {
$newArr[$splitArray[$k - 1]] = $splitArray[$k + 1];
}
}
var_dump($newArr);
/*newArr
Array
(
[method] => post
[action] => #
)*/
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How to create an array for JSON using PHP?
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I am using a plugin that requires an array of associative rows as a json formatted string -- something like:
[
{oV: 'myfirstvalue', oT: 'myfirsttext'},
{oV: 'mysecondvalue', oT: 'mysecondtext'}
]
How do I convert my multidimensional array to valid JSON output using PHP?
Once you have your PHP data, you can use the json_encode function; it's bundled with PHP since PHP 5.2.
In your case, your JSON string represents:
a list containing 2 elements
each one being an object, containing 2 properties/values
In PHP, this would create the structure you are representing:
$data = array(
(object)array(
'oV' => 'myfirstvalue',
'oT' => 'myfirsttext',
),
(object)array(
'oV' => 'mysecondvalue',
'oT' => 'mysecondtext',
),
);
var_dump($data);
The var_dump gets you:
array
0 =>
object(stdClass)[1]
public 'oV' => string 'myfirstvalue' (length=12)
public 'oT' => string 'myfirsttext' (length=11)
1 =>
object(stdClass)[2]
public 'oV' => string 'mysecondvalue' (length=13)
public 'oT' => string 'mysecondtext' (length=12)
And, encoding it to JSON:
$json = json_encode($data);
echo $json;
You get:
[{"oV":"myfirstvalue","oT":"myfirsttext"},{"oV":"mysecondvalue","oT":"mysecondtext"}]
By the way, from what I remember, I'd say your JSON string is not valid-JSON data: there should be double-quotes around the string, including the names of the objects' properties.
See http://www.json.org/ for the grammar.
The simplest way would probably be to start with an associative array of the pairs you want:
$data = array("myfirstvalue" => "myfirsttext", "mysecondvalue" => "mysecondtext");
then use a foreach and some string concatenation:
$jsontext = "[";
foreach($data as $key => $value) {
$jsontext .= "{oV: '".addslashes($key)."', oT: '".addslashes($value)."'},";
}
$jsontext = substr_replace($jsontext, '', -1); // to get rid of extra comma
$jsontext .= "]";
Or if you have a recent version of PHP, you can use the json encoding functions built in - just be careful what data you pass them to make it match the expected format.
This is one of the most fundamental rules in php development:
DO NOT MANUALLY BUILD A JSON STRING.
USE json_decode().
If you need to populate your data in a loop, then gather all of your data first, then call json_encode() just once.
Do not try to wrap/prepend/append additional data to an encoded json string. If you want to add data to the json payload, then decode it, add the data, then re-encode it.
It makes no difference if you pass object type or array type data to json_encode() -- by default, it will still create a string using square braces for indexed arrays and curly braces for iterable data with non-indexed keys.
Code:
$array = [
[
'oV' => 'myfirstvalue',
'oT' => 'myfirsttext'
],
[
'oV' => 'mysecondvalue',
'oT' => 'mysecondtext'
]
];
echo json_encode($array);
Output:
[{"oV":"myfirstvalue","oT":"myfirsttext"},{"oV":"mysecondvalue","oT":"mysecondtext"}]
For clarity, I should express that the OP's desired output is not valid json because the nested keys are not double quote wrapped.
You can use the stdClass, add the properties and json_encode the object.
$object = new stdClass();
$object->first_property = 1;
$object->second_property = 2;
echo '<pre>';var_dump( json_encode($object) , $object );die;
Voilà!
string(40) "{"first_property":1,"second_property":2}"
object(stdClass)#43 (2) {
["first_property"]=>
int(1)
["second_property"]=>
int(2)
}
This is the php code to generate json format.
while ($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$array[] = $row;
}
echo '{"ProductsData":'.json_encode($array).'}'; //Here ProductsData is just a simple String u can write anything instead
I have a string:
01;Tommy;32;Coder&&02;Annie;20;Seller
I want it like this:
array (size=2)
0 =>
array (size=4)
0 => string '01' (length=2)
1 => string 'Tommy' (length=5)
2 => int 42
3 => string 'Coder' (length=5)
1 =>
array (size=4)
0 => string '02' (length=2)
1 => string 'Annie' (length=5)
2 => int 20
3 => string 'Seller' (length=6)
Hope you can help me, thank you!
Not sure if the datatypes will be matching (as I believe it's all in a string) but here's the code
$myarray = array();
foreach(explode("&&",$mystring) as $key=>$val)
{
$myarray[] = explode(";",$val);
}
The explode command takes a string and turns it into an array based on a certain 'split key' which is && in your case
but since this is a dual array, I had to pass it through a foreach and another explode to solve.
It's very simple. First you need to explode the string by && and then traverse through array exploded by &&. And explode each element of an array by ;.
Like this,
<?php
$str="01;Tommy;32;Coder&&02;Annie;20;Seller";
$array=explode("&&",$str);
foreach($array as $key=>$val){
$array[$key]=explode(";",$val);
}
print_r($array);
Demo: https://eval.in/629507
you should just have to split on '&&', then split the results by ';' to create your new two dimensional array:
// $string = '01;Tommy;32;Coder&&02;Annie;20;Seller';
// declare output
$output = [];
// create array of item strings
$itemarray = explode('&&',$string);
// loop through item strings
foreach($itemarray as $itemstring) {
// create array of item values
$subarray = explode(';',$itemstring);
// cast age to int
$subarray[2] = (int) $subarray[2]; // only useful for validation
// push subarray onto output array
$output[] = $subarray;
}
// $output = [['01','Tommy',32,'Coder'],['02','Annie',20,'Seller']];
keep in mind that since php variables are not typed, casting of strings to ints or keeping ints as strings will only last depending on how the values are used, however variable type casting can help validate data and keep the wrong kind of values out of your objects.
good luck!
There is another appropach of solving this problem. Here I used array_map() with anonymous function:
$string = '01;Tommy;32;Coder&&02;Annie;20;Seller';
$result = array_map(function($value){return explode(';',$value);}, explode('&&', $string));
In PHP I have an array like this:
array
0 => string 'open' (length=4)
1 => string 'http://www.google.com' (length=21)
2 => string 'blank' (length=5)
but it could also be like:
array
0 => string 'blank' (length=5)
1 => string 'open' (length=4)
2 => string 'http://www.google.com' (length=21)
now it is easy to find "blank" with in_array("blank", $array) but how can I see if one string is starting with "http"?
I've tried with
array_search('http', $array); // not working
array_search('http://www.google.com', $array); // is working
now everything after `http? could vary (how to write vary, varie? could be different is what I mean!)
Now do I need a regex or how can I check if http exists in array string?
Thanks for advices
"Welcome to PHP, there's a function for that."
Try preg_grep
preg_grep("/^http\b/i",$array);
Regex explained:
/^http\b/i
^\ / ^ `- Case insensitive match
| \/ `--- Boundary character
| `------ Literal match of http
`--------- Start of string
Try using the preg_grep function which returns an array of entries that match the pattern.
$array = array("open", "http://www.google.com", "blank");
$search = preg_grep('/http/', $array);
print_r($search);
Solution without regex:
$input = array('open', 'http://www.google.com', 'blank');
$output = array_filter($input, function($item){
return strpos($item, 'http') === 0;
});
Output:
array (size=1)
1 => string 'http://www.google.com' (length=21)
You can use preg_grep
$match = preg_grep("/http/",$array);
if(!empty($match)) echo "http exist in the array of string.";
or you can use foreach and preg_match
foreach($array as $check) {
if (preg_match("/http/", $check))
echo "http exist in the array of string.";
}
I'm total newbie to PHP and Drupal but I fix this simple(?) thingo on my template. I want to get title, date, text and link path from this array? I can't get it out of there. I think its because its in inside of another array and because im noob in PHP I cant get it out of there ? Also I would like to get it to a loop. If theres more content, I would get it as a list or something. I would use foreach for this? Like foreach $contents as $content and so on?
I get this output from this: var_dump($contents);
array
'total' => string '1' (length=1)
'data' =>
array
0 =>
array
'cid' => string '13231' (length=3)
'title' => string 'TITLEBLABLABLA' (length=3)
'body_text' => string 'TEXTBLABLABAL' (length=709)
'created' => string '313131' (length=10)
'created' => string '2010-07-13 14:12:11' (length=19)
'path' => string 'http://goog.fi' (length=72)
Think of accessing multidimensional arrays in the same way you'd access a file in a subdirectory: just reference each level/directory in sequence. Assuming that array is stored in $arr, you'd get the title as follows:
$arr['data']['0']['title']
Here is a basic PHP array tutorial
It comes down to this:
You retrieve an element of an array with []
$array = array( 'a' => 'b');
echo $array['a']; //Prints b;
To loop through a multi-dimensional array and echo date try this...
foreach ($contents as $key => $content) {
echo $content[$key]['created'];
}
If that doesn't work, post the output of print_r($content) in your question so I can't build you exact array. I'm kinda confused over the structure of your array in your question.
This question already has answers here:
How to create an array for JSON using PHP?
(8 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
I am using a plugin that requires an array of associative rows as a json formatted string -- something like:
[
{oV: 'myfirstvalue', oT: 'myfirsttext'},
{oV: 'mysecondvalue', oT: 'mysecondtext'}
]
How do I convert my multidimensional array to valid JSON output using PHP?
Once you have your PHP data, you can use the json_encode function; it's bundled with PHP since PHP 5.2.
In your case, your JSON string represents:
a list containing 2 elements
each one being an object, containing 2 properties/values
In PHP, this would create the structure you are representing:
$data = array(
(object)array(
'oV' => 'myfirstvalue',
'oT' => 'myfirsttext',
),
(object)array(
'oV' => 'mysecondvalue',
'oT' => 'mysecondtext',
),
);
var_dump($data);
The var_dump gets you:
array
0 =>
object(stdClass)[1]
public 'oV' => string 'myfirstvalue' (length=12)
public 'oT' => string 'myfirsttext' (length=11)
1 =>
object(stdClass)[2]
public 'oV' => string 'mysecondvalue' (length=13)
public 'oT' => string 'mysecondtext' (length=12)
And, encoding it to JSON:
$json = json_encode($data);
echo $json;
You get:
[{"oV":"myfirstvalue","oT":"myfirsttext"},{"oV":"mysecondvalue","oT":"mysecondtext"}]
By the way, from what I remember, I'd say your JSON string is not valid-JSON data: there should be double-quotes around the string, including the names of the objects' properties.
See http://www.json.org/ for the grammar.
The simplest way would probably be to start with an associative array of the pairs you want:
$data = array("myfirstvalue" => "myfirsttext", "mysecondvalue" => "mysecondtext");
then use a foreach and some string concatenation:
$jsontext = "[";
foreach($data as $key => $value) {
$jsontext .= "{oV: '".addslashes($key)."', oT: '".addslashes($value)."'},";
}
$jsontext = substr_replace($jsontext, '', -1); // to get rid of extra comma
$jsontext .= "]";
Or if you have a recent version of PHP, you can use the json encoding functions built in - just be careful what data you pass them to make it match the expected format.
This is one of the most fundamental rules in php development:
DO NOT MANUALLY BUILD A JSON STRING.
USE json_decode().
If you need to populate your data in a loop, then gather all of your data first, then call json_encode() just once.
Do not try to wrap/prepend/append additional data to an encoded json string. If you want to add data to the json payload, then decode it, add the data, then re-encode it.
It makes no difference if you pass object type or array type data to json_encode() -- by default, it will still create a string using square braces for indexed arrays and curly braces for iterable data with non-indexed keys.
Code:
$array = [
[
'oV' => 'myfirstvalue',
'oT' => 'myfirsttext'
],
[
'oV' => 'mysecondvalue',
'oT' => 'mysecondtext'
]
];
echo json_encode($array);
Output:
[{"oV":"myfirstvalue","oT":"myfirsttext"},{"oV":"mysecondvalue","oT":"mysecondtext"}]
For clarity, I should express that the OP's desired output is not valid json because the nested keys are not double quote wrapped.
You can use the stdClass, add the properties and json_encode the object.
$object = new stdClass();
$object->first_property = 1;
$object->second_property = 2;
echo '<pre>';var_dump( json_encode($object) , $object );die;
Voilà!
string(40) "{"first_property":1,"second_property":2}"
object(stdClass)#43 (2) {
["first_property"]=>
int(1)
["second_property"]=>
int(2)
}
This is the php code to generate json format.
while ($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$array[] = $row;
}
echo '{"ProductsData":'.json_encode($array).'}'; //Here ProductsData is just a simple String u can write anything instead