How to use php array+string in html?

Question

I am using PL/pgsql RETURNS TABLE to get the below output using pg_fetch_all in PHP

array(4) { 
[0]=> array(1) 
    { ["not_actual_values"]=> string(88) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" } 
[1]=> array(1) 
    { ["not_actual_values"]=> string(89) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" } 
[2]=> array(1) 
    { ["not_actual_values"]=> string(88) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" } 
[3]=> array(1) 
    { ["not_actual_values"]=> string(89) "("var1","var2",var3,var4,date1,int,int,int,var5,int,int,int,int)" } 
}

I am unable to use the above output in HTML. I tried using php explode but it didnt work I got zero array. Also, What confuses me I am getting quotes in first two variable and not in others.

Update

I used below function but I got zero array

function pgArrayToPhp($text) {
    if(is_null($text)) {
        return array();
    } else if(is_string($text) && $text != '{}') {
        $text = substr($text, 1, -1);// Removes starting "{" and ending "}"
        if(substr($text, 0, 1) == '"') {
            $text = substr($text, 1);
        }
        if(substr($text, -1, 1) == '"') {
            $text = substr($text, 0, -1);
        }
        // If double quotes are present, we know we're working with a string.
        if(strstr($text, '"')) { // Assuming string array.
            $values = explode('","', $text);
        } else { // Assuming Integer array.
            $values = explode(',', $text);
        }
        $fixed_values = array();
        foreach($values as $value) {
            $value = str_replace('\\"', '"', $value);
            $fixed_values[] = $value;
        }
        return $fixed_values;
    } else {
        return array();
    }
}

How can i do this ?

Answer 1

This is the answer that I have come up with. Though it is not neat but it seems to be working as expected now

$fetch=pg_fetch_all($query); //fetching data from postgresql
$count=count($fetch);
for ($j=0;$j<$count;$j++) {
$a = $fetch[$j]['not_actual_values'];
$b = array(explode("," , $a)); 
$count2=count($b[0]);
foreach ($b as $f) { echo '<tr>';
for ($i=0;$i<$count2;$i++){
echo '<td><input type="text" readonly value='.$f[$i].'>';
}   }   }

But now the problem is raw data contains noise as in "(" so that is spoiling the output.

Thank you all for your efforts.

Answer 2

Your inner values are arrays, not strings, you need to take that into account:

function pgArraytoPhp($array) {
     foreach ($array as $row) {      // $row is an inner array here!
         actuallyDoParsing($row[0]); // Parse row's first element, 
                                     // which will be the string you want.
     }
}

Depending on what you need, you'll return the accumulated result of all of those actuallyDoParsing() calls.