adrianhb

Thanks mac_gyver Here's the JSON { "ec": "3CB220804", "ID": "1X1291167M031591B", "FullName0": "Walter Mitty", "email0": "walt@thurber.com", "phone0": "", "comments0": "", "member0": "true", "date00": "true", "date10": "true", "date20": "true", "cost": "90" } Yes I can change the POST keys. I just didn't want to rewrite huge amounts to change to using JSON POST encoding. Faking up the []s, I get { "ec": "3CB220804", "ID": "4B965680NN227192S", "FullName": [ "Walter Mitty" ], "email": [ "walt@thurber.com" ], "phone": [ "" ], "comments": [ "" ], "member": [ "true" ], "date": [ [ "true", "true", "true" ] ], "cost": "90" } Which is what I need. I didn't realise that POST encoding and decoding allowed arrays. Thanks all, I'll mark kicken's reply as the solution.

Thanks both JSON array. Well, if I had a hierarchical structure like JSON to work with I wouldn't need to ask this question. Here's a print_r of the array, which is a bit closer to the structure I've actually got Array ( [ec] => 3CB220804 [ID] => 4A73-1549 [FullName0] => Walter Mitty [email0] => walt@thurber.com [name0] => true [date00] => true [date10] => true [date20] => true [cost] => 90 ) Kicken, I do know the structure of the data so I know the key order. I just can't easily change it. I do indeed want to build a new array better suited to my needs, but my problem is that I can't find a way that isn't very clunky. If I include []s in the POST string, e.g. name[0]=true&date[0][0]=true&date[0][1]=true [ and ] in fact have to be encoded as %5B and %5D respectively, but I can convert them back. So the question becomes, Is there a way in PHP to take the string above and automatically create the array from it? I can only think of calling eval() on each substring between the &s, and I think that may be frowned on.

I have an array created from URL-encoded POST data with repeating groups of elements. The keys are name0, date0A, date0B, name1, date1A, date1B.... I know how many dates follow each name (2 in the example above but can be any number) and I want to create a new array containing the dates following each new name. Using array_slice() is messy as it needs the starting index. Is there an elegant way to get the next N elements of an array starting from the current element? The code uses foreach with key => value. I could use a for loop with a counter but this seems even clunkier. Maybe I need to use a while loop with next() and an exit condition, but it would be nice to find something that just creates an array with the next N elements. Using a callback function would be fine but I can't see it being any neater. Yes I know POST data in JSON would have been nice but I'm working with what I've got!