I receive a string from jQuery UI Sortable plugin, it gives me a string like this one
items[]=1&items[]=2&items[]=3
How can I trun it into a real array?
I was thinking replacing & with ; and asserting it. Any better suggestions?
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You should receive this as $_POST or $_GET, how are you even sending the output of sortable to your php in the first place?Michael J.V.– Michael J.V.2011-05-04 13:34:47 +00:00Commented May 4, 2011 at 13:34
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You are looking for parse_str().
Parses str as if it were the query string passed via a URL and sets variables in the current scope.
For example:
$str = "first=value&arr[]=foo+bar&arr[]=baz";
parse_str($str);
echo $first; // value
echo $arr[0]; // foo bar
echo $arr[1]; // baz
You can also specify an array to store results in if you do not want to pollute your scope:
parse_str($str, $output);
echo $output['first']; // value
echo $output['arr'][0]; // foo bar
echo $output['arr'][1]; // baz
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j0k
@Phoenix I think it's pretty sure to link to the php doc :)
// I am assuming you are getting this value from post or get method;
$string = implode(";", $_REQUEST['items']);
echo $string;
