2 Strings into key/value array help!

[Anonymous]

Hi there,
I have 2 strings that I pull from WordPress/gravity forms.

What i want to do is merge these 2 fields together to create a key/value pair in an array that i can then loop through later.
My data looks something like this but with more items.
strData = "jamie,smith,2003-12-23,male, 2 My Street, MyTown,MyCounty,EH12 3RE,1234,more strings";
strFields = "firstname,lastname,DoB,gender,address1,town,county,postcode,clientid,otherdata";

thanks

 

[Anonymous]

You need to split your fields and data, trim any erroneous whitespace, then combine the fields and data into your structure. The code below shows how it goes together:

$strData = "jamie,smith,2003-12-23,male, 2 My Street, MyTown,MyCounty,EH12 3RE,1234,more strings";
$strFields = "firstname,lastname,DoB,gender,address1,town,county,postcode,clientid,otherdata";

$data = array_map('trim', explode(',', $strData));
$fields = array_map('trim', explode(',', $strFields));

$user = array_combine($fields, $data);

Note that this data structure is pretty fragile: if you add any new fields, your user data will be out of sync. What functions in gravity forms are you using to store data this way? There might be a better way to do it.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for the quick reply.

We are getting the data via zapier from Rezdy(Online booking system for tours/holidays) 2 of the fields outputs from zapier as the comma separated values as shown, those to fields - data and fieldname always match up. these 2 values are stored in fields in a gravity form.
So with your code so far we have:

add_action( 'gform_after_submission_1', 'splitZapierIncoming', 10, 2 );

function splitZapierIncoming($entry, $form){

    $strData = rgar( $entry, '5' );
    $strFields = rgar($entry, '8');
	$data = array_map('trim', explode(',', $strData));
	$fields = array_map('trim', explode(',', $strFields));
	
	$user = array_combine($fields, $data);

    $json = json_encode($user);
    $my_post = array(
        'post_title'    => wp_strip_all_tags( rgar($entry, '9') ),
        'post_content'  => $json,
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_author'   => 1,
        'post_category' => array( 8,39 )
      );
       
      // Insert the post into the database
      wp_insert_post( $my_post );

}

The ultimate aim is not to output to a wp post but it at least see the data being transformed as it comes in,
We will be either putting it back into another form in gravity or pushing it to a different database.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like you've got it covered then.