Hi Keith,
I read your post and decided to write a function for you. Basically what
it does is does, is take in a string, and optional newline and value
separators, and outputs an associative array.
It actually works, and has a few comments... so yeah, enjoy.. and thanks
for the challenge : )
Adam
You can use it like so...
PHP Script (of course, you must either have the function on the same
page or include() it like so):
<?php include('extractPairs.php');
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
$strText = "Name1=Value1 \n Name2 = Value 2\nName 3 =Value 3";
$arrPairs = extractPairs($strText);
print_r($arrPairs);
?>
Output:
Array
(
[Name1] => Value1
[Name2] => Value 2
[Name 3] => Value 3
)
//=====> extractPairs.php
<?php
function
extractPairs($strText,$strValueSeparator="=",$strNewlineSeparator="\n"){
// kill the bad stuff... prevent a meaningless array
if (!is_string($strText)){ return array(""=>""); }
// gets rid of newlines/spaces etc so we don't get a crap array
$strText = trim($strText);
// separate each line in an element in an array
$arrLines = explode($strNewlineSeparator,$strText);
// loop through $arrLines, separating the names/values and placing
them in $arrOutput
for ($i=0;$i<count($arrLines);$i++){
$pos = strpos($arrLines[$i],$strValueSeparator);
// get the text before and after the found position
// and get rid of the whitespace b4 and after
$arrOutput[trim(substr($arrLines[$i],0,$pos))] =
trim(substr($arrLines[$i],$pos+1));
}
return $arrOutput;
}
?>
> Ok, lets say I have some code here:
>
> $result = array();
>
> $ch = curl_init ("https://www.myverificationplace.com/verify.asp";);
>
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120); // Set the timeout, in seconds.
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
> $result = curl_exec ($ch);
>
> curl_close ($ch);
>
> Now that we see that, how can I make it so that the output from curl,
> which
> is in the variable $result, will be an array, for each line of output?
>
> Some of the line of output looks like this:
>
> ssl_result_message=APPROVED
> ssl_txn_id=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> ssl_approval_code=000000
>
> I need each of the lines to be turned into a variable. Any ideas as to
> how I
> might go about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith Posehn
