I am attempting to take a string:

"photos:0:0:ref"

and turn this into a multi-dimensional array:

$arrayName[photos][0][0][ref]

I've been looking all over for something to help me with us, and alas, no luck.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Mateo Nares

    easy - you split the string into a temp array, and use that to index the new array

    $string = "photos:0:0:ref";
$temp = explode(":", $string);
$arrayName[$temp[0]][$temp[1]][$temp[2]][$temp[3]] = "";
//this is the same as doing
//$arrayName["photos"]["0"]["0"]["ref"] = "";

    adam

      This is great, but what if I don't know ahead of time what the string will be...I need to do this dynanically, such that

      "photos:0:0:ref" will be $arrayName[photos][0][0][ref]

      but

      "parts:0:typeOfPart" will yield $arrayName[parts][0][typeOfPart]

      employing the same method to generate both.

        yeah i only put the string in to illustrate the point - as long as you have a variable in there, it will work. and just adapt the code for the next bit, when you only have three parts

          Thank you very much. I'll use that, then.

          Mateo

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