foreach, explode and keeping data in same array

Question

I am trying to convert my example_data to be in the same array:

$example_data = "FirstName=Test&LastName=TestLastName&Address=ExampleSt";
$explode1 = explode('&', $example_data);

$data_array = array();
foreach ($explode1 as $values)
{
    $explode2 = explode("=", $values);

    $field_name = $explode2[0];
    $field_value =  $explode2[1];

    $data_array[] = array(
        $field_name    =>    $field_value
        );
}                

echo json_encode($data_array);

The current output - separated arrays:

[{"FirstName":"Test"},{"LastName":"TestLastName"},{"Address":"ExampleSt"}]

The intended output I am looking for:

{"FirstName":Test,"LastName":TestLastName,"Address":ExampleSt}

Are you looking for this? https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php — Sindhara, Dec 12 '20 at 22:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '20 at 22:20

In each iteration you add an array at the end of $data_array. Instead, you could just directly use $field_name as a key and $field_value as a value:

foreach ($explode1 as $values)
{
    $explode2 = explode("=", $values);

    $field_name = $explode2[0];
    $field_value =  $explode2[1];

    $data_array[$field_name] = $field_value; # Here!
}

EDIT:
As a side note, PHP has a built-in function called parse_str that can do all this heavy lifting for you:

$example_data = "FirstName=Test&LastName=TestLastName&Address=ExampleSt";
$data_array = array();
parse_str($example_data, $data_array);

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '20 at 22:38

0

There is a function for that:

parse_str($example_data, $data_array);
echo json_encode($data_array);

answered Dec 12 '20 at 22:38

AbraCadaver

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