Converting a file content into two dimensional array PHP

Question

Am new to PHP and am using php5.2, I need to convert a file content into a two-dimensional array, ie my file content will be

"Higher Studies" => "#",
"Symposiums" => "#",
"Conferences" => "#"

And my expected output is,

Array ( [Higher Studies] => # [Symposiums] => # [Conferences] => # )

PHP functions I tried to achieve this,

$values = file_get_contents($url);
echo $values;
$array = explode(",", $values);

$array = array(file_get_contents($url));

$array = file('http://localhost/test1.php');

And finally I am getting an answer like this,

Array ( [0] => "Higher Studies" => "#", [1] => "Symposiums" => "#", [2] => "Conferences" => "#" )

Is this the possible way we can read from a file or Is it possible to get a solution as like What I expected??

Iłya Bursov · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-19 14:13:19Z

2

you should read it via file, then go for each row, split and store in array

$array = array();
$values = file($url);
foreach ($values as $idx => $row)
{
    list($k, $v) = explode(' => ', $row);
    $k = trim($k, '"');
    $v = trim($v, '",');
    $array[$k] = $v;
}
print_r($array);

or you can do:

$values = file_get_contents($url);
eval('$array = array('.$values.');');
print_r($array);

edited Oct 19, 2013 at 14:13

answered Oct 19, 2013 at 5:16

Iłya Bursov

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5 Comments

Guts Over a year ago

Is eval() a good choice or splitting the contents as you said before can be good??

Iłya Bursov Over a year ago

eval can be prohibited on some hosting systems, so it is better to do with file/split - but if you're sure about file contents, and server - eval will be faster

Guts Over a year ago

Yeah it works good. May be support will be prohibitted after some days too in my hosting right. So better to go with split? How can I split things like this.

Guts Over a year ago

In that am getting the output for values with ",

Guts Over a year ago

Thanks Ilya Bursov. I have edited the answer as it works good for me.

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