How to split this array into separated variables?

Question

I'm receiving this response from a server when I put print_r($response):

    {"success":true,"title_response":"SUCCESS","text_response":"any text"}}

I have tried use:

     list($var1, $var2,$var3)=explode(",", $response);

but result is:

     $var1= {"success":true;
     $var2= "title_response":"SUCCESS";
     $var3= text_response":"any text"}};

I need the result:

    $var1= true;
    $var2= "SUCCESS";
    $var3= "any text";

Any idea?

not really an answer but this should help php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php — brad
– brad, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 18:41
It's a json_encoded string (mostly. There's an extra brace, could be a pasting issue?). Use json_decode to get the data out. — aynber
– aynber, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 18:42
@aynber It is NOT a valid json_encoded string. The { } are unbalanced. (Unless that is an typo in the question post.) — AJNeufeld
– AJNeufeld, Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 18:43

Madbreaks · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08 18:49:11Z

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It's a JSON string, you can use a combination of json_decode to convert to an object and then get_object_vars to get the object's variables as an array:

list($var1, $var2, $var3) = get_object_vars(json_decode($response));

echo $var2;   // SUCCESS

As noted in the comments, this will only work if the string is valid JSON. I'm assuming a copy/paste error when writing the question, and that you do have valid JSON.

edited Feb 8, 2017 at 18:49

answered Feb 8, 2017 at 18:42

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HernánDavid Gómez S Over a year ago

Thanks for your response, i received this error: Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\elyo\date.php on line 179

Madbreaks Over a year ago

@HernánDavidGómezS date.php? I don't see how that's related to this answer.

AJNeufeld · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08 19:01:53Z

You can parse it as follows:

// Problem data (with unbalanced { }'s)
$response = '{"success":true,"title_response":"SUCCESS","text_response":"any text"}}';

// Remove trailing '}}'
$response = substr($response, 0, -2);

// Split on the commas
$temp = explode(',', $response);

// For each element in the array, split on the colon, and take second part
array_walk($temp, function(&$value) {
  $value = explode(":", $value)[1];
});

// Distribute array into your variables
list($var1, $var2, $var3) = $temp;

But this is very fragile code. If your strings have commas or colons in it, it will break in various fashions.

It is better to get a valid JSON response, and parse it using the proper JSON functions, as explained by @Madbreaks.

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