How to use php array+string in html? - php

Question

I am using PL/pgsql RETURNS TABLE to get the below output using pg_fetch_all in PHP
array(4) {
[0]=> array(1)
{ ["not_actual_values"]=> string(88) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" }
[1]=> array(1)
{ ["not_actual_values"]=> string(89) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" }
[2]=> array(1)
{ ["not_actual_values"]=> string(88) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" }
[3]=> array(1)
{ ["not_actual_values"]=> string(89) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" }
}
I am unable to use the above output in HTML. I tried using php explode but it didnt work I got zero array. Also, What confuses me I am getting quotes in first two variable and not in others.
Update
I used below function but I got zero array
function pgArrayToPhp($text) {
if(is_null($text)) {
return array();
} else if(is_string($text) && $text != '{}') {
$text = substr($text, 1, -1);// Removes starting "{" and ending "}"
if(substr($text, 0, 1) == '"') {
$text = substr($text, 1);
}
if(substr($text, -1, 1) == '"') {
$text = substr($text, 0, -1);
}
// If double quotes are present, we know we're working with a string.
if(strstr($text, '"')) { // Assuming string array.
$values = explode('","', $text);
} else { // Assuming Integer array.
$values = explode(',', $text);
}
$fixed_values = array();
foreach($values as $value) {
$value = str_replace('\\"', '"', $value);
$fixed_values[] = $value;
}
return $fixed_values;
} else {
return array();
}
}
How can i do this ?

Answer 1

Your inner values are arrays, not strings, you need to take that into account:
function pgArraytoPhp($array) {
foreach ($array as $row) { // $row is an inner array here!
actuallyDoParsing($row[0]); // Parse row's first element,
// which will be the string you want.
}
}
Depending on what you need, you'll return the accumulated result of all of those actuallyDoParsing() calls.

Answer 2

This is the answer that I have come up with. Though it is not neat but it seems to be working as expected now
$fetch=pg_fetch_all($query); //fetching data from postgresql
$count=count($fetch);
for ($j=0;$j<$count;$j++) {
$a = $fetch[$j]['not_actual_values'];
$b = array(explode("," , $a));
$count2=count($b[0]);
foreach ($b as $f) { echo '<tr>';
for ($i=0;$i<$count2;$i++){
echo '<td><input type="text" readonly value='.$f[$i].'>';
} } }
But now the problem is raw data contains noise as in "(" so that is spoiling the output.
Thank you all for your efforts.