Re: How to parse data type array columns?

Look at phpArray() in lib/classes/ADODB_base.pclass in the phpPgAdmin
3.5 source distribution.

It's not recursive - just parsed 1-d arrays.

Also doesn't support leading dimension indication.

Chris

Janning Vygen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you use array data type in your database design and query your tables with
> PHP you get a string which represents the array. It can look something like
> this:
>
> [1:2]{{"Hallo", "Te\"st},"},{"Hallo", "Test"}}
>
> It can even have another delimiter than "," if you change the type delimiter.
>
> Has anybody already written a function to parse this array into an php array
> structure? A simple explode doesn't work of course. The list offers a too
> simple explode(",", ereg_replace("{[-]}", $string)). this works only with one
> level and numeric types.
>
> Has anybody already written a recursive function to parse the array string?
>
> kind regards,
> Janning
>
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