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1. fas.khan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   My Plugin is creating a string with the following value.
   :11:{i:0;s:14:"General public";i:1;s:24:"Educational institutions";i:2;s:16:"Large enterprise";i:3;s:15:"Local authority";i:4;s:15:"Local community";i:5;s:24:"Professional association";i:6;s:25:"Professional organization";i:7;s:20:"Research institution";i:8;s:30:"Small and Medium sized company";i:9;s:15:"Training center";i:10;s:30:"Young people between 15 and 25";}

   Now, I want only these values between the " ", which are for example:-

   - General public
   - Educational institutions
   - Large enterprise
   - ...

   So basically a function that would allow me to put the values between " and " into some array.

   Could you help me building a function in PHP like this? or may be there is some built in action which I cant find :(

   Many Thanks

2. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What you are showing is a 'serialized' array. You can 'unserialize' it and list the entries in a loop. (You are missing the letter 'a' at the first of the string.)

   Assuming that the string is in the variable $list, this will unserialize it and list the items:

   $items = unserialize($list);
   echo '<ul>';
   foreach ($items as $item) {
      echo "<li>$item</li>";
   }
   echo '</ul>';

3. fas.khan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   wow! thanks vtxyzzy

   I was just looking at the string and found a pattern of its appearence ...

   so i did this...

   $adf= (explode('"',$post->options));
   
           		    $i=0;
           		    $len = strlen($adf);
   
           		    for ($i = 0; $i < count($adf); $i++)
                               {
                                          if ( $i %2 != 0)
           			       	echo $adf[$i]."<br />";
           			   }

   It just gave me the values.

   Many Thanks again.

4. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Glad you found a solution. Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic 'Resolved'.

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