I'm not the best at PHP and would be extremely grateful if somebody could help. Basically I need to parse each line of a datafeed and just get each bit of information between each "|" - then I can add it to a database. I think I can handle getting the information from between the "|"'s by using explode but I need a bit of help with parsi...
Greetings, I have data stored on mysql with delimiter "," in 1 table. I have rows and column stored on database too. Now i have to output the data using rows and column number stored on database to draw the table. Rows and column number are user input, so it may varies. Let say, there is number 3 on column and 3 on rows. I need to ...
I am getting this values from database. $Generic=$res['Generic']; $Trade=$res['Trade']; $Dos=$res['Dos']; $Duration=$res['Duration']; I stored the values using "implode function". How to get these values into "explode function" PLz Help me. ...
Hello, I am parsing out some emails. Mobile Mail, iPhone and I assume iPod touch append a signature as a separate boundary, making it simple to remove. Not all mail clients do, and just use '--' as a signature delimiter. I need to chop off the '--' from a string, but only the last occurrence of it. Sample copy hello, this is some e...
I decided to use favs (id's of users which marked that post as a favorite) as a comma separated list in a favs column which is also in messages table with sender,url,content etc.. But when i try to count those rows with a quey like: select count(id) from messages where favs like '%userid%' of course it gives wrong results because al...
Lets say I have a string - $string = "This is my test case for an example." If I do explode based on ' ' I get an Array('This','is','my','test','case','for','an','example.'); What I want is an explode for every other space: Array('This is','my test','case for','an example.'). The string may have an odd # of words, so the last item in ...
Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840807/wondering-how-to-do-php-explode-over-every-other-word $string = "This is my test case for an example." If I do explode based on ' ' I get an Array('This','is','my','test','case','for','an','example.'); What I want is an explode for every other space. I'm looking for the fol...
I'm creating a function which can accept a string which is either retrieved through file_get_contents() on a local text file, or something fetched from a url such as http://site.com/338383.txt. The file will be a tab seperated file, with each item in the file being on its own line. Is it better to use \n or \r to explode() the string an...
I have a tag field in my web page, in which user can enter tags seprating them by , (comma), same as done in StackOverflow. I am using PHP and I am seprating all tags enetered by the user on the basis of comma using explode function and then adding them to my tags table in teh database. My code is working perfect for normal tags like if...
Hi all! I'm writing a parser for a scripting programming language in PHP. The syntax of that scripting language looks like this: ZOMFG &This is a comment (show "Hello, World\!"); This is a page written in that language, that displays Hello, World! in the browser. But I could also have code like this: ZOMFG &This is a comment ! on mu...
eg: existing data retrieve from db field: a,b,c,d,e so now $data= "a,b,c,d,e"; eg: new data to be added--- cc, gg final value saved into db will be $finaldatatobeupdatedintodb= "a,b,c,d,e,cc,gg"; Retrieve out and add in few more values. Then append it back into the comma list. How to do it purely with implode and explode, without nee...
I'm working on a long string grabbed from a Session that uses "§" (Section sign) to group and divide different parts of the string. Example: "ArticleID | Title | Date § ArticleID | Title | Date § ArticleID | Title | Date" I want to put this into an array using: explode("§",$str); However, for some reason the character is totally ignor...
How can I do the following without lots of complicated code? Explode each value of an array in PHP (I sort of know how to do this step) Discard the first part Keep the original key for the second part (I know there will be only two parts) By this, I mean the following: $array[1]=blue,green $array[2]=yellow,red becomes $array[1]=g...
What would be the proper way to explode a COM object for debugging? I have a 3rd party function that returns a multilevel object. The documentation is non existant, so I'd like to be able to echo everything out of the object or debug it in Komodo IDE. Komodo just says Object and nothing else. Maybe convert to array? I know some of...
How can i array a string, in the format that $_POST does... kind of, well i have this kind of format coming in: 101=1&2020=2&303=3 (Incase your wondering, its the result of jQuery Sortable Serialize... I want to run an SQL statement to update a field with the RIGHT side of the = sign, where its the left side of the equal sign? I know ...
I'm having some trouble with delimiter for explode. I have a rather chunky string as a delimiter, and it seems it breaks down when I add another letter (start of a word), but it doesn't get fixed when I remove first letter, which would indicate it isn't about lenght. To wit, the (working) code is: $boom = htmlspecialchars("<td width=25...
I have problem, I need to explode my input to my stored procedure, but don't know how I can do it. My stored procedure has a VARCHAR(256) input which I need to split and generate insert statements. i what to explode this varchar "1,2,3,7,8,9" so I need to split that string on "," and iterate through the result ...
Can you write the following in one line of code? $foo = explode(":", $foo); $foo = $foo[0]; ...
Using PHP, reading in a string like the following: 36,2,"$21,830.00","$18,012.50","$20,764.00","$14,935.00","$13,655.00","$15,820.00","$6,895.00","$4,357.50","$4,944.00" I want to explode using the comma (,) as a delimiter, but I've realized there's a problem- my money values also have commas! Can anyone suggest a way to handle this? I ...
How can I explode a string by one or more spaces or tabs? Example: A B C D I want to make this an array. ...