Textarea lines to array using php

Question

I have a php variable that contain value of textarea as below.

Name:Jay
Email:[email protected]
Contact:9876541230

Now I want this lines to in array as below.

Array
(
[Name] =>Jay
[Email] =>[email protected]
[Contact] =>9876541230
)

I tried below,but won't worked:-

$test=explode("<br />", $text); 
print_r($test);

You can split() the string to separate by \n\r (jumb line) and : to prop/value — Roy Bogado
– Roy Bogado, Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 10:15
$test=explode("<br />", $text); print_r($test); but each line become an key value but i want as mention in question. — Sanj
– Sanj, Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 10:16
<br/> tag is html line break .it will not consider as new line php server side . — JYoThI
– JYoThI, Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 10:19

Shafiqul Islam · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 10:36:54Z

6

you can try this code using php built in PHP_EOL but there is little problem about array index so i am fixed it

<?php
$text = 'Name:Jay
Email:[email protected]
Contact:9876541230';
$array_data = explode(PHP_EOL, $text);

$final_data = array();
foreach ($array_data as $data){
    $format_data = explode(':',$data);
    $final_data[trim($format_data[0])] = trim($format_data[1]);
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($final_data);

and output is :

Array
(
    [Name] => Jay
    [Email] => [email protected]
    [Contact] => 9876541230
)

edited Aug 17, 2017 at 10:36

answered Aug 17, 2017 at 10:17

Shafiqul Islam

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Sanj Over a year ago

thanks for your answer but see my question.I want array as given i question

Death-is-the-real-truth Over a year ago

ShafiqulIslam and @Sanj you both have to take care of extra spaces if some-one added accidently in text-area. You array indexes and value both have spaces then (if you are using above answer)

Death-is-the-real-truth Over a year ago

@ShafiqulIslam i have solution of that in my answer.If you want to check

Death-is-the-real-truth · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 10:27:58Z

5

Easiest way to do :-

$textarea_array = array_map('trim',explode("\n", $textarea_value)); // to remove extra spaces from each value of array
print_r($textarea_array);

$final_array = array();
foreach($textarea_array as $textarea_arr){
    $exploded_array = explode(':',$textarea_arr);
    $final_array[trim($exploded_array[0])] = trim($exploded_array[1]);

}

print_r($final_array);

Output:- https://eval.in/846556

edited Aug 17, 2017 at 10:27

answered Aug 17, 2017 at 10:18

Death-is-the-real-truth

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Sanj · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 10:24:27Z

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This also works for me.

$convert_to_array = explode('<br/>', $my_string); 
for($i=0; $i < count($convert_to_array ); $i++)
{ 
$key_value = explode(':', $convert_to_array [$i]); 
$end_array[$key_value [0]] = $key_value [1];
} 
print_r($end_array); ?>

answered Aug 17, 2017 at 10:24

Sanj

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Mykyta Dudariev · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 10:24:50Z

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I think you need create 3 input:text, and parse them, because if you write down this value in text area can make a mistake, when write key. Otherwise split a string into an array, and after create new array where key will be odd value and the values will be even values old array

answered Aug 17, 2017 at 10:24

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