How to convert string ["4"] to real array?
How do you guys get values stored as varchar in format like: ["4"] ?
For some reason, when I do $article->category[0] it returns [ instead of 4 - probably because it looks at it as a string and [ is the 0th character. But how to make PHP think ["4"] is an array and to return 4 when asking for 0th item? Thanks in advance.
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I am writing a custom code in my logic, it has nothing to do with database in this case. But thanks anyway.
I ended up with substr , explode and a loop with another substr. But perhaps there is some dedicated PHP function for such conversion.
json_decode() ?
you wrote "get values stored as varchar" which led me to think you're talking about a database column/ model attribute