PHP implode_with_key(); Implode array with key and value

function implode_with_key($assoc, $inglue = '>', $outglue = ',') {
    $return = '';
 
    foreach ($assoc as $tk => $tv) {
        $return .= $outglue . $tk . $inglue . $tv;
    }
 
    return substr($return, strlen($outglue));
}

See also http_build_query().

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8 comments

  1. anonymous –

    This is great!!!!! expecially if you need to store serialized multidimensional array into database!

    thank's!

  2. anonymous –

    why there is $return = ''; as very first line of the function ..... this code will never give yu the result....but still i Appriciate your work helped me a lot thanx

  3. anonymous –

    for storing into database look at serialize(), base64encode()

  4. anonymous –

    this code will give a result; "$return" is not the same as "return"

  5. anonymous –

    What about:

    function implode_with_key($assoc, $inglue = ':')

    {

        if(is_array($assoc) && count($assoc)>0)

        {

            foreach ($assoc as $tk => $tv)

            {

                $return[] = $tk . $inglue . $tv;

            }

            return implode(';', $return);

        }

        return false;

    }

  6. anonymous –

    This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing.

  7. anonymous –

    This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing.

    I changed the inglue from , to =>. Makes more sense to me.

  8. anonymous –

    function explode_with_key($assoc, $indelimiter = '=', $outdelimiter = '|') {

            $return = [];

            $assoc     = explode($outdelimiter, $assoc);

            

            foreach ($assoc as $ts) {

                list($key, $value) = explode($indelimiter, $ts);

                $return[$key] = $value;

            }

        

            return $return;

        }

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