I want to convert following string into json. Following has a link to image then delimiter ',' then a link then a delimiter ',' then has another delimiter ',' between title and subtitle then another delimiter '#'.
$str = "http://example.com/1.jpg,http://example.com/1.html,title,subtitle#http://example.com/2.jpg,http://example.com/2.html,title,subtitle#http://example.com/3.jpg,http://example.com/3.html,title,subtitle";
I want above string to appear like following
[
{
image: http://example.com/1.jpg,
link: http://example.com/1.html,
title: title,
subtitle: subtitle
},
{
image: http://example.com/2.jpg,
link: http://example.com/2.html,
title: title,
subtitle: subtitle
},
{
image: http://example.com/3.jpg,
link: http://example.com/3.html,
title: title,
subtitle: subtitle
}
]
How can I achieve above in php?
// first split the string on the '#' delimiter
$list = explode("#", $str);
// create output array, will be used as input for json_encode function
$outputArray = array();
// go through all the lines found when string was splitted on the '#' delimiter
foreach ($list as $line)
{
// split the single line in to four part,
// using the ',' delimiter
list($image, $link, $title, $subtitle) = explode(',', $line);
// store everything in the output array
$outputArray[] = array(
'image' => $image,
'link' => $link,
'title' => $title,
'subtitle' => $subtitle,
);
}
// parse the array through json_encode and display the output
echo json_encode($outputArray);
You can do this:
$str = "http://example.com/1.jpg,http://example.com/1.html,title,subtitle#http://example.com/2.jpg,http://example.com/2.html,title,subtitle#http://example.com/3.jpg,http://example.com/3.html,title,subtitle";
$keys = Array("image", "link", "title", "subtitle");
$o = Array();
foreach(explode("#", $str) as $value) {
$new = Array();
foreach(explode(",", $value) as $key => $sub){
$new[ $keys[ $key ] ] = $sub;
}
$o[] = $new;
}
echo json_encode($o);
Output:
[
{
"image":"http:\/\/example.com\/1.jpg",
"link":"http:\/\/example.com\/1.html",
"title":"title",
"subtitle":"subtitle"
},
{
"image":"http:\/\/example.com\/2.jpg",
"link":"http:\/\/example.com\/2.html",
"title":"title",
"subtitle":"subtitle"
},
{
"image":"http:\/\/example.com\/3.jpg",
"link":"http:\/\/example.com\/3.html",
"title":"title",
"subtitle":"subtitle"
}
]