Get specific value of array object

Question

I have an array object below

33 => 'a:2:{ 
   s :8:"latitude";
   s:10:"39.3600586";
   s:9:"longitude";
   s:18:"-84.30993899999999";
}'

And here is the variable I'm using to get the value of that object

$events_location = $entries[1]['33'];

Is there a way to get just the value of either the latitude or longitude instead of everything in the single quotes?

Thanks!

masterfloda · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-24 22:10:49Z

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What you have here is a serialized string. Unserialize it to access the key in the array:

$events_location = unserialize($entries[1]['33']);
echo $events_location['longitude'];

answered Oct 24, 2017 at 22:10

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symcbean · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-24 22:16:02Z

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This should be a comment but its a bit long.

The string you have shown us looks vaguely like part of a serialized php entity. But it's not. If you try to unserialize this you'll get an error. The underlying data appears to be a coordinate - but even ignoring the syntactic errors, the semantics of the structure are wrong.

Please check the source you transcribed this from. If you have not copied the original content here please amend your question.

If you have transcibed it correctly then go speak to whoever supplied you with this data and ask them to fix it.

answered Oct 24, 2017 at 22:16

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gabed123 Over a year ago

I was able to unserialize successfully. What syntactic error are you referring to?

symcbean Over a year ago

Then what you unserialized is not what you have shown us here.

gabed123 Over a year ago

This is true, what's in the first bracket is a looped variable.Thanks for clearing that up!

salathe Over a year ago

It's just a mistake due to re-formatting the value for display. The original serialized string, which didn't have the extra whitespace, is well-formed.

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