- str_replace: documentation ( source)
<?php
$somearray = array(
'item1' => array(
'subitem1' => 'Some value',
'subitem2' => 'Some other value',
'subitem3' => array(
'subsubitem' => 'A sub value'
)
),
'item2' => 'a different value'
);
$map = "item1/subitem3/subsubitem";
$map = "['" . str_replace("/","']['",$map) . "']";
eval('$result = $somearray' . $map);
echo $result;