<?php
$str = '[ ["key1", "value1"], ["key2", "value2"], ["key3", "value3"] ]';
preg_match_all('/(\[("(.*?)"), ("(.*?)")\])+/i', $str, $matches);
//Now we have in $matches[3] and $matches[5] the keys and the values
//and we would now turn this into an array using a loop
$new_array = array();
foreach($matches[3] as $k => $arr) {
$new_array[$arr] = $matches[5][$k];
}
var_dump($new_array);
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
array(3) {
["key1"]=>
string(6) "value1"
["key2"]=>
string(6) "value2"
["key3"]=>
string(6) "value3"
}