将PHP字符串数组转换为Array对象

Question

I'm developing a PHP app and I have a problem by converting a string array into an object array. I tried to force casting my string into an array by using (array), but it won't works. Here is my string (debug):

string '['method'=>'post','action'=>'#']' (length=32)

As you can see, it's a perfect array into a string and i want to convert that string.

My question is simple, does PHP has a function to convert directly a string into an array (I think no) or i have to convert my string by using explode?

Answer 1

From php 5.4 you can simply eval: eval("\$f=['method'=>'post','action'=>'#'];"); var_dump($f);

For olders you have to fix the string a bit, change the 1st "[" to "array(" and the last "]" to ")".

The question is a bit duplicate of How to create an array from output of var_dump in PHP?