Reference an array from a string

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I've been banging my head against a wall with this one. What I have is a database table which holds references such as {name} etc which map to an array which has been built such as $customer['name']. What I need to do is take the value from the database and get the value from the array.

The value in the database is the same as what would be needed to reference the array (so $customer['name'] would be in the database field).

Can anyone tell me how I would get the array value from this?

Thanks in advance.

so basically you need a templating engine? you have a string `Hello {name}, blah blah {whatever}` etc... and need to convert that to `Hello, Fred, blah blah morning`. — Marc B, Jun 22 '15 at 14:50
Marc B, yes although the entire string is stored in a database field at the moment — user3738149, Jun 22 '15 at 14:52
is there a way to reference an array from a string so for instance take a string "$array['name']" and get the value from the array with exactly the same name — user3738149, Jun 22 '15 at 15:00
My answer here may help you out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29838190/modify-php-customize-how-php-calls-a-function/29839101#29839101 — Markus AO, Jun 22 '15 at 15:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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I managed to find an answer from this thread - get value from array using string php. What I ended up doing was separating the array name and key with a full stop so $customer['name'] is now stored as customer.name and exploded it to get the array value.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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