如何在[] [关闭]之间查找文本

Question

I have a text like this

[name:roccos] [phone:[phone]] [tags:abc def ghi] [id:value]

How can i find the values of name, phone, etc using php, So i should have variable like this $name = 'roccos' $phone = '123324324', I can either do this for all separately or is there any way to automatically get all variables along with value automatically...

Ex : In this text [abc:def] [phone:123456] everything before the colon : will be the variable name and after the colon will be it's value => $abc = 'def' $phone = '123456'

Answer 1

Just use a regular expression, and preg_match_all:

$str = '[name:roccos] [phone:[phone]] [tags:abc def ghi] [id:value]';
preg_match_all('/\[(.*?):(.*?)\]/', $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
$data = array();

foreach($matches as $match) {
    $data[$match[1]] = $match[2];
}

Here's a demo. Note that I used an array to hold the data instead of directly assigning them to global variables; that would be dangerous if you were taking this from any kind of user input. If the data is safe, you can expand it using extract:

extract($data);