variable into array

toshog

hey,

what is the easyest way to convert a passed variable into an array?
like:
$passed_var = ("moo","foo","loo","etc");

to:

$some_array = ("moo","foo","loo","etc");

any help appreciated...

thanks...

mogster

Hmm..
Like:

$some_array = array("moo","foo","loo","etc");

I think 😉

knutm

toshog

that helps a lot. really. but....

the "passed variable" means variable passed from a form to a page where i needed is as an array....
so from:

$passed_from_previous_page_with_a_form = "("moo","foo","etc")";

to:

$an_array_in_this_page = array ("moo","foo","etc");

maybe this explanation will help...

thank you

devinemke

do you mean to say that the passed variable is a literal string that euqals ("moo","foo","etc")?

if so:

<?
$string = '("moo","foo","etc")';
eval ('$array = array ' . $string . ';');
print_r ($array);
?>

BTW: it is a very bad idea to use the eval() function on user submitted data.

diego25

BTW: it is a very bad idea to use the eval() function on user submitted data.

And yet you still used it 🙂

I'd use str_replace() to get rid of the quotes and parenthesis, and then use explode() to convert the string into an array. Check str_replace and explode

Diego

toshog

i know it's a bad idea. i didn't come up with this code . working on inherited code.. the string is a large string containing urls. and it varies. how else can you pass a long string of long urls - up to 15 or 16 of them - to "a next" page?...
still has to be formatted somehow. i thought of just passing the urls with "*" inbetween.... but still they have to be processed on the other side to make an array out of them...

any ideas?...

thanks...

diego25

Even if you used '*', you can still use explode like I said before...

Diego

toshog

ok. thanks..

now how do i solve this:

from an xml file:
some text &lt;br&gt; more text...

in the browser i see:
... some text <br> more text....

i know the &lt; should be only < but how do i chege it?..

should i go through every string of text with str_replace? ereg_replace?!

toshog

this is in the xml: & amp;lt;br& amp;gt;
without the white spaces....

diego25

Check out
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

Diego

toshog

the machine the php is on is not mine.... the php is 4.2.3...

toshog

ok. i got the password and upgraded the php.... now it works... thanks....