Development PHP: String to Array

Hey Guys and Galls,

I have a string of the form aaa@bbb,ccc@ddd and would like to dynamically convert that to an array of the form ("bbb" => "aaa", "ddd" => "ccc").

Splitting it by the commas is easy, but then how do I split "aaa@bbb" and use the "bbb" part as the key?
I could do it manually*, but can't help thinking that there must be a cleaner way of doing it.

Could there be a neat way of doing it all in one go?

Any ideas / suggestions welcome and appreciated. (I'm AFK this weekend so may not reply immediately.)

*- i.e. find the "@" get the preceding, get the 'postceding', add them to the array

 

preg_match_all is probably what you need to use here It'll nicely return an array for you as you need.

 

cheers Rich.
I just got an answer at EE too:

Code:

<?php

$items = explode(',', $string);
$array = array();
foreach($items as $item) {
  list($key, $value) = explode('@', $item, 2);
  $array[$key] = $value;
}

?>