Access array using dynamic path

Question

I have an issue in accessing the array in php.

$path  = \"[\'a\'][\'b\'][\'c\']\";
$value = $array.$path;

In the above piece of code I hav

Answer 1

You have two options. First (evil) if to use eval() function - i.e. interpret your string as code.

Second is to parse your path. That will be:

//$path = "['a']['b']['c']";
preg_match_all("/\['(.*?)'\]/", $path, $rgMatches);
$rgResult = $array;
foreach($rgMatches[1] as $sPath)
{
   $rgResult=$rgResult[$sPath];
}