Best way to create an array from string data?

[gsingh85]

I have a variable and it contains a lot of strong data would I want to convert the string data into an array. What's the best way of doing because I know older versions of php will be slightly different?

[Jacques1]

This is rather vague. Can you give an example of such a string? And how is the resulting array supposed to look like?

[CroNiX]

That really depends on the format/structure of the data.

 

if it was something like:

 

$data = 'one|two|three';

it would be as simple as:

 

$data_array = explode('|', $data);

[gsingh85]

Sorry. Here is an example I have been working on:

$fitters = \DB::select('address')->from('fitters')->execute()->as_array();


            foreach ($fitters as $fitter) {

                $town = explode(',', $fitter['address']);

                if (isset($town[2])) {
                    $town = $town[2];
                    $get_available_towns[] = $town;

A new variable exists $get_available_towns to add some extra on the array but why are the [] brackets required?

[Jacques1]

Because this appends the value of $town to the $get_available_towns array. If you remove the brackets, you just overwrite the $get_available_towns variable again and again.

 

This has nothing to do with the PHP version, by the way.