API16:JUtility/parseAttributes

Description

Method to extract key/value pairs out of a string with xml style attributes

Syntax

static parseAttributes($string)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$string		$string String containing xml style attributes

Returns

array Key/Value pairs for the attributes

Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/utility.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.utility' );

Source Body

public static function parseAttributes($string)
{
        // Initialise variables.
        $attr           = array();
        $retarray       = array();

        // Lets grab all the key/value pairs using a regular expression
        preg_match_all('/([\w:-]+)[\s]?=[\s]?"([^"]*)"/i', $string, $attr);

        if (is_array($attr))
        {
                $numPairs = count($attr[1]);
                for ($i = 0; $i < $numPairs; $i++)
                {
                        $retarray[$attr[1][$i]] = $attr[2][$i];
                }
        }
        return $retarray;
}