How to parse a simple url response in PHP? - php

Question

I am trying to parse a simple response from the server and use its values.
I was able to get the required information as follows:
The actual response :
AccountID=0&Authenticated=1&ResponseCode=0&ResponseText=Success
What I need is separate values for :
AccountID
Authenticated
ResponseCode
ResponseText
My code so far :
$tempValue = explode("\n", $response);
foreach($tempValue as $row => $data)
{
//get row data
$row_data = explode('&', $data);
$row_internal = explode('=', $row_data);
$info2[$row]['id'] = $row_internal[0];
$info2[$row]['name'] = $row_internal[1];
$info2[$row]['description'] = $row_internal[2];
$info[$row]['id'] = $row_data[0];
$info[$row]['name'] = $row_data[1];
$info[$row]['description'] = $row_data[2];
echo 'Account ID: ' . $info[$row]['id'] . '<br />';
echo 'Authenticated: ' . $info[$row]['name'] . '<br />';
echo 'Response Code: ' . $info[$row]['description'] . '<br />';
echo '<br></br>';
echo 'Account ID: ' . $info2[$row]['id'] . '<br />';
echo 'Authenticated: ' . $info2[$row]['name'] . '<br />';
echo 'Response Code: ' . $info2[$row]['description'] . '<br />';
}
Result for the above code :
Account ID: AccountID=0
Authenticated: Authenticated=1
Response Code: ResponseCode=0
Account ID:
Authenticated:
Response Code:
What I needed was just the values for the fields like :
Account ID: 0
Authenticated: 1
Response Code: 0

Answer 1

If this is a query string response, then no need to explode, there is a better tool that handles this well.
Just use parse_str().
Simple one line response example:
$response = 'AccountID=0&Authenticated=1&ResponseCode=0&ResponseText=Success';
parse_str($response, $data);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($data);
Or if the response looks like a multiline string like this, you could apply it like:
$response = "AccountID=1&Authenticated=1&ResponseCode=0&ResponseText=Success
AccountID=2&Authenticated=1&ResponseCode=0&ResponseText=Success
AccountID=3&Authenticated=1&ResponseCode=0&ResponseText=Success
";
$responses = explode("\n", $response);
foreach ($responses as $key => $value) {
parse_str($value, $data);
if(!empty($data)) {
echo 'Account ID: '.$data['AccountID'] .'<br/>';
echo 'Authenticated: '.$data['Authenticated'] .'<br/>';
echo 'Response Code: '.$data['ResponseCode'] .'<br/>';
echo 'Response Text: '.$data['ResponseText'] .'<br/>';
echo '<br/>';
}
}