PHP Question

[Sushi]

Hi, I'm trying to write a very simple piece of PHP to add into a script at the moment and my knowledge is non-existent apart from some programming at school and Uni many years ago.

I just want to know how i would take a text string that is passed into the program as one variable and split the individual words into an array when the words are seperated by spaces.

I'd really appreciate the help if anyone knows the answer to this.

[inspectercoley]

This will do it for 2 words...

http://codr.us/category/PHP/Left-and-Right-Functions

And this will do it with more than 2 words

http://www.tanguay.info/web/codeExample.php?id=984

And this is probably the best way to do it

http://php.oregonstate.edu/manual/en....str-split.php

This is a good example for splitting a date:

<?php
// Delimiters may be slash, dot, or hyphen
$date = "04/30/1973";
list($month, $day, $year) = split('[/.-]', $date);
echo "Month: $month; Day: $day; Year: $year<br />\n";
?>

So the end result should look like this...

// Split a string into words on boundaries of one or more spaces
// This also uses tabs or new-lines but just delete the \t\n parts
$input = "Please cut   \t me \n in pieces";
$words = split("[\n\r\t ]+", $input);
print_r($words);

// Output:
Array
(
    [0] => Please
    [1] => cut
    [2] => me
    [3] => in
    [4] => pieces
)

Just use a combination of a couple of them so it look like your own work ^^

I gave a few links as well so you can learn the different ways you can use this sort of thing.

Hope this helps.

[Sushi]

Cheers mate. I'll give it a try. Have some K+.