将HTML响应转换为PHP数组

Question

The response I am getting from a web call in php is something i have never seen. I have tried json_decode function and I have also tried the parse_str below, but I can't get the values to return in an array.

What i want to do is to output an array with name, price, and url. The formatting of the return has got me stumped (I copied it exactly, no typos or missing ' characters).

$urltest='https://www.***';
$result408 = file_get_contents($urltest);
//parse_str($result408, $output);

Prices = [{'name':'Seller1', 'unknown':'unknown0',  'price':60.37, 'price_f':'$60<sup style="font-size:12px;">37</sup>', 'url':'http:…'},
        {'name':'Seller2', 'unknown':'unknown0','price':87.25, 'price_f':'$87<sup style="font-size:12px;">25</sup>, 'url':'http:…'},
        {'name':'Seller3', 'unknown':'unknown0',  'price':74, 'price_f':'$74<sup style="font-size:12px;">00</sup>', 'url':'http:…'}];

Answer 1

The JSON returned from the service is bad. It looks like you can alter it to make it into JSON that can be parsed. Bear in mind this approach assumes that there are no single quotes in any of the data values.

$tmp=str_replace('gSellPrices =', '',$result408); $tmp = str_replace('"', '\"', $tmp); $tmp = str_replace('\'', '"', $tmp); $tmp = rtrim($tmp, '; ');

$urltest='https://www.***';
$result408 = file_get_contents($urltest);
// Remove 'Prices = '
$tmp=str_replace('gSellPrices =', '',$result408);
// Protect the existing double quotes
$tmp = str_replace('"', '\\"', $tmp);
// Now replace all the incorrect single quotes with double quotes.
$tmp = str_replace('\'', '"', $tmp);
// Remove trailing semicolon
$tmp = rtrim($tmp, '; ');
// Now we can json_decode
$data = json_decode($tmp);


Assuming that the output from service is EXACTLY as follows:

Prices = [{'name':'Seller1', 'unknown':'unknown0',  'price':60.37, 'price_f':'$60<sup style="font-size:12px;">37</sup>', 'url':'http:…'},
    {'name':'Seller2', 'unknown':'unknown0','price':87.25, 'price_f':'$87<sup style="font-size:12px;">25</sup>, 'url':'http:…'},
    {'name':'Seller3', 'unknown':'unknown0',  'price':74, 'price_f':'$74<sup style="font-size:12px;">00</sup>', 'url':'http:…'}];