Re: Replace punctuation in an associative array

On 3/4/23 15:57, The Doctor wrote:
> Arno Welzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> : The Doctor, 2023-03-04 06:19:
> 
> : [...]
> : > What is happening is that the arrauy is being formed by a subarray
> : > and the end product is seeing a [[ at the start and a ]]
> : > at the end when it should be seeing a [ at the start and a ] at the end.
> 
> : Then don't create a subarray!
> 
> : Again: if you need objects, then create objects and not arrays!
> 
> 
> J.A AHo and Arno ,
> 
> 2 Problems here
> 
> a) Converting a page from a programmer that did not use classes

Then you need to rewrite things, how many weeks hasn't you spent on 
trying to get a proper json of the mess of arrays. Doing it right and 
rewrite, I think you would have finished a month ago already.

Take a look at the following code, test it too and you see the benefit
https://pastebin.com/yJC9DJWs

If you rewrite things now, you will save time and efforts in the future, 
specially if there comes changes to the API.


> b) Web pages that actually you can search adn
>   the results give you not what you want.
> 
>   If you 2 had quality web pages on PHP
>   programming , you should be up there and not the pages
>   Google, yahoo et al as showing.

php.net is IMHO a really good source for information.

Sometimes Packt hands out free PHP books, just keep on looking at
https://www.packtpub.com/free-learning
one book a day and after a while you will see the same book again...

-- 
  //Aho