Online PHP editor | refs for ZXPn2

<?php $data = '123.animal=cat 123.name=fred 123.food=fish 345.animal=dog petshop=zoonoria'; $ini = parse_ini_string($data); $result = []; foreach ($ini as $key => $value) { echo $key, ' => ', $value, PHP_EOL; $splitKey = explode('.', $key); $iniPtr = &$result; foreach($splitKey as $subKey) { if (!isset($iniPtr[$subKey])) { $iniPtr[$subKey] = null; } $iniPtr = &$iniPtr[$subKey]; } $iniPtr = $value; unset($iniPtr); } var_dump($result);