Convert string to array in php

Question

I have a line as below

["Day1"]["Morning"]=mutton&["Day1"]["Evening"]=Juice&["Day2"]["Morning"]=burger&["Day2"]["Evening"]=pizza 

What I'm trying to convert to an array as shown below

$arr["Day1"]["Morning"] = "mutton";
$arr["Day1"]["Evening"] = "Juice";
$arr["Day2"]["morning"] = "burger";
$arr["Day2"]["evening"] = "pizza";

I tried something like below.

$str = '["Day1"]["Morning"]=mutton&["Day1"]["Evening"]=Juice&["Day2"]["Morning"]=burger&["Day2"]["Evening"]=pizza';
$pieces = explode("&", $str);

foreach($pieces as $pie)
{
$arr.$pie;
}
var_dump($arr);

I know that the code above is really dumb: /. Is there a suitable solution?

Answer 1

You could do so ...

<?php
$str='["Day1"]["Morning"]=mutton&["Day1"]["Evening"]=Juice&["Day2"]["Morning"]=burger&["Day2"]["Evening"]=pizza';
$arr = explode('&',$str);
foreach($arr as $v)
{
    $valarr=explode('=',$v);
    preg_match_all('/"(.*?)"/', $valarr[0], $matches);
    $narr[$matches[1][0]][$matches[1][1]]=$valarr[1];
}

print_r($narr);

OUTPUT :

Array
(
    [Day1] => Array
        (
            [Morning] => mutton
            [Evening] => Juice
        )

    [Day2] => Array
        (
            [Morning] => burger
            [Evening] => pizza
        )

)

You can access, for example echo $arr["Day1"]["Morning"], which printsmutton

Demo

Answer 2

It seems that it can be analyzed using parse_str(), but not without some conversion:

$str = '["Day1"]["Morning"]=mutton&["Day1"]["Evening"]=Juice&["Day2"]["Morning"]=burger&["Day2"]["Evening"]=pizza';

parse_str(preg_replace('/(?<=^|&)/', 'x', str_replace('"', '', $str)), $a);

var_dump($a['x']);

, x, parse_str(). , preg_replace(), :

x[Day1][Morning]=mutton&x[Day1][Evening]=Juice&x[Day2][Morning]=burger&x[Day2][Evening]=pizza

x.