This string comes from ajax GET, I have decided to make a option "field".
String: width(400),height(200),age(99),string(test)
How do I split this into this kind of array:
$myArray =
[
'width' => 400,
'height' => 200,
'age' => 99,
'string => 'test'
];
Please take a note that integers has to integers, to make it easier for calculations.
Why not change the way you send the data?
$.ajax({
dataType: "json",
url: url,
data: {width:400, height: 200, age: 99, aString: "test"},
success: success
});
That will be easier to process in PHP. Save yourself a headache :)
The regex can probably be improved (it's not my strong point), but you could do something like this:
$string = 'width(400),height(200),age(99),string(test)';
preg_match_all('/(\w+)\((\w+)\)/', $string, $matches);
$output = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);
Which outputs:
array
'width' => string '400' (length=3)
'height' => string '200' (length=3)
'age' => string '99' (length=2)
'string' => string 'test' (length=4)
$str = "width(400),height(200),age(99),string(test)";
preg_match_all('/(\d|\w)+/', $str,$matches);
$array = array();
for ($i=0; $i < count($matches[0]); $i += 2) {
$array[$matches[0][$i]] = $matches[0][$i+1];
}
print_r($array);
RESULT:
Array
(
[width] => 400
[height] => 200
[age] => 99
[string] => test
)
If you are using a PHP print_r to send this variable in GET then dont do it.
You could perhaps encode the data(array) into JSON(by using json_encode) and then url_encode it and then send it in the GET variable value.
And while receiving it, do the reverse, url_decode first and then json_decode to get it in the array format you are looking for
Or else send each width, height, age and string as separate variable to save all the effort
