Hello, i've asked everybody and no one seems to know this problem.

I'm trying to turn a string into an array. The string contains "$array = array('key' => 'value'...);". I'm pretty sure that eval is my best bet, though i gave parse_str() a try.

Is this possible?

I just did this test, and it worked:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

$s = "\$array1 = array('key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2');";
eval($s);

var_dump($s, $array1);

?>

I had to escape "$array1" as "\$array1", since it's in a double-quoted string.