PHP array to objective-c NSArray (Xcode)

Question

Is it possible to transform an array in PHP into an NSArray?

PHP code:

<?php
$DB_HostName = "XXXXX";
$DB_Name = "XXXXX";
$DB_User = "XXXXX";
$DB_Pass = "XXXXX";
$DB_Table = "Name";

$con = mysql_connect($DB_HostName,$DB_User,$DB_Pass) or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_select_db($DB_Name,$con) or die(mysql_error()); 

if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Name");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
 {

$Name = $row['name'];
$LastName = $row['lastname'];

echo "$Name $LastName";
echo "<br />";

}
mysql_close($con);

?>

Can I make "$Name" and "$LastName" to Foundation-styled NSArrays without using JSON?

What do you mean xcode array? Objective-c array?

Panagiotis
– Panagiotis

2012-07-20 19:47:28 +00:00
Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 19:47 — Panagiotis
– Panagiotis, Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 19:47
stackoverflow.com/questions/6017575/…

Ronnie
– Ronnie

2012-07-20 19:57:07 +00:00
Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 19:57 — Ronnie
– Ronnie, Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 19:57

Janak Nirmal · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-21 09:20:40Z

3

First of all xcode is an IDE not a language ;) Your language of choice is objective-c.

What you have to do is do a request to the php page (if you are going to use this on a real app and not for an exercise, you'll have to put the page somewhere publicly) and get the data for processing.

Since you don't want this to be json, you can have easy options and hard options on how to get the data into an array.

One way is using delimiters. For example your output could be:

Michael Westen##Fiona Glenanne##Sam Axe

You can get that easily using the following:

NSString *dataString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:nil error:nil];
myArray = [dataString componentsSeparatedByString:@"##"];

Where url is the url of the page you want to get the data and myArray your NSArray.

edited Jul 21, 2012 at 9:20

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answered Jul 20, 2012 at 20:13

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Panagiotis Over a year ago

Also remember that you have to output them in UTF-8, or else funky characters will come out.

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