How to convert string to PHP array?

Question

I have the following string

sender=48&destination=51&message=hi+good&sender=48&destination=49&message=good+boy

Please help me convert that into PHP array as following

 array = array(
     'sender'=>48,
     'destination'=>51,
     'message'=>hi+good,
     'sender'=>48,
     'destination'=>49,
     'message'=>good+boy
 );

Note: Its not PHP GET.

Its not a PHP GET. @FastSnail I failed with link you provided. — tapaljor, Nov 24 '16 at 05:26
one thing I have noticed here same array key not able to come in single array. e.g : sender,message,destination 2 times — RJParikh, Nov 24 '16 at 05:38
your desire output will wrong. your array should be like `Array ( [0] => Array ( [sender] => 48 ) [1] => Array ( [destination] => 51 ) [2] => Array ( [message] => hi+good ) [3] => Array ( [sender] => 48 ) [4] => Array ( [destination] => 49 ) [5] => Array ( [message] => good+boy ) )` — RJParikh, Nov 24 '16 at 05:43

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '16 at 05:35

This should work as inteded, to solve this problem, you just need to use explode() correctly, otherwise it's easy.

Here you go :

$firstarr=explode('&',$yourstring);
$desiredarr=array();
foreach($firstarr as $pair)
{
    $exp_pair=explode('=',$pair);
    $desiredarr[$exp_pair[0]]=$exp_pair[1];
}

print_r($desiredarr);

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '16 at 05:27

1

If it is from query string then you can just use $_REQUEST otherwise you need to explode() string using & as separator. Then for each item in array that explode() generate, you split with = and add it to final array
or using parse_str().

answered Nov 24 '16 at 05:27

Zamrony P. Juhara

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If I explode it comes `Array([0]=sender=48` .. – tapaljor Nov 24 '16 at 05:30
How do you call `explode()`? – Zamrony P. Juhara Nov 24 '16 at 05:32
$array = explode("&", $array); The key is coming in 0, 1 series. – tapaljor Nov 24 '16 at 05:35

How to convert string to PHP array?

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