php string separate function

Question

In my project a file contains content like

&lbl1=Mount Olympus - 24\" long x 48\" wide - Oil on canvas&prc1=725&sold1=&

&lbl2=Edgartown Mar         


        

Answer 1

You can do with file_get_contents and parse_str()

    $data=file_get_contents('finename.ext');

    parse_str($data,$parsed_data);

    print_r($parsed_data);

Answer 2

That looks like a URL query string. Try decoding it?

Answer 3

The parse_str function is what you're after.

Alternatively, you could iterate like so:

$labels = array();

foreach (explode('&', $newLine) as $item) {
    list($name, $value) = explode('=', $item);
    $labels[$name] = $value;
}

Now you have an indexed array of labels. If you want all of the values as a string, try

implode(', ', $labels);

Good luck!