Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Mikey Knutson wrote:
>> Is this even possible? I'm building a string, properly formatted, to create
>> a named pair or associative array. The string is fine, and when I use it
>> directly to create the array, all is well. When I try to use the var to
>> create the array, I get an empty array (I think). Huh?
>>
>> Here is what I have:
>>
>> $myString = "'username' => 'password' , 'mickey' => 'mouse' , 'donald' =>
>> 'duck'";
>> $myArray = array($myString);
>> print ("array val: $myArray[username]"); // get an empty string here
>>
>>
>>
>
> AFAIK you can't do what you're showing. This will work, but is not advised:
>
> eval('$myArray = array(' . $myString . ');');
> print ("array val: $myArray[username]"); // array val: password
>
> Why are you needing to store the array indexes and values in a string
> like this? Maybe we can give you an alternative approach.
>
Unless I'm way off you might like serialize()
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-Shawn
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