Jochem Maas wrote:
Gerard Samuel wrote:
Im trying to evaluate a string representation of the output of var_export(),
as an array.
To make a long story short, Im using curl to fetch another php page,
that uses var_export to echo out php data structures.
The fetched data via curl, is a string. Something like ->
array ( 'foo' => 'bar', )
something LIKE? or exactly that?
anyway I don't have problems with this...
php -r '
eval("\$arr = array ( \"foo\" => \"bar\", );"); $arr1 = var_export($arr, true); eval("\$arr2 = $arr1;"); var_dump($arr,$arr1,$arr2);
'
...took me a couple of mins to figure out how you could be....
For now, exactly like.
This is what I extracted from your example for it to work ->
$ret = str_replace("\n", '', curl_exec($this->curl_handle));
eval("\$arr = $ret;");
$arr1 = var_export($arr, true);
var_dump($arr);
I would like to convert this to a real array. Im currently trying this -> $ret = curl_exec($this->curl_handle); $str = '$array = $ret;';
this is your problems. its to do with string interpolation. your exec() call is equivelant to
$array = $ret;
guess what that makes $array? so it should be:
exec("\$array = $ret;");
which will replace the string $ret into the string to be exec()'ed. alternatively:
exec('$array = '.$ret.';');
geddit?
gotit
eval($str); var_dump($ret, $array);
next time paste the actual var_dump output, its easier. :-)
It was in the original email. Just not where you thought it would have been ;)
Thanks for your help.
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