PHP extract proper array from within text string

Question

I have a text string that looks like this

$string = "abcdefgh Value : Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 30 [1] => 1 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 25 [1] => 1 ) [2] => Array ( [0] => 44 [1] => 332 ) ) Text : ijklmn";

I want to pull out the array text as a proper PHP array. How can I best do this? I experimented with substr(), but I could not get it to work.

The reason for this is because I'm using the below which outputs various arrays among all sorts of text.

$jpeg = new PelJpeg($filename);
$exif = $jpeg->getExif();
echo $exif;

Thanks.

Are you sure it is a string or are you debugging and this is the value of a variable? — steve klein, May 13 '15 at 00:01
Instead of straight `echo`, you might first `json_encode()` it. That'll make things way more simple. — Inglis Baderson, May 13 '15 at 00:58

Drakes · Answer 1 · 2015-05-26T06:04:38.830

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Depending on what you are doing, you may need to do more work to get the Exif data. For example:

$jpeg = new PelJpeg($filename);
$exif = $jpeg->getExif();

The Exif data is not stored directly in this object, instead it is stored in a PelTiff object, which can be retrieved using the getTiff() method:

$tiff = $exif->getTiff();
$ifd0 = $tiff->getIfd(); 
$desc = $ifd0->getEntry(PelTag::IMAGE_DESCRIPTION); 
echo 'The description: ' . $desc->getValue();

Reference: Using PEL in applications

edited May 26 '15 at 06:04

answered May 13 '15 at 23:22

Drakes

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@user2029890 Were you able extract the exif data? – Drakes Jun 22 '15 at 14:01

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