PHP :: Explode Array

Using Explode, On An Array?
Our website has a spanish and english version, the data for both languages are pulled using an arrays of arrays. I have one file that contains all of the arrays, here is an example of one

$products = array{
"dirtbike"=>array("dirtbike_eng","dirtbike_sp"),
}
A session variable is set (0 for English, 1 for Spanish) and the appropiate translation is pulled out of the array based on that.

It works great, easy to update and change things on our site...but now we want to take the task of translating and updating the page out of the hands of our web designer (me) and let operations do it. They want a simple text file that they can edit and just upload to the web server for the changes to take effect...here is an example of what I have given them (translation.txt)

ID ------ English ----- Spanish
dirtbike | dirtbike_eng | dirtbike_sp

I can read the translation.txt file fine using $data=file(translation.txt);
Now it puts each line into an array. What I want to do, is use explode on each line (using a ' | ' delimiter) and output each line into it's own array of arrays. Code:

How To Explode Array From File?
contents of myfile.txt = 5035|9638742|11938 // (one line of text)

$myfile = "/home/path/public_html/myfile.txt";
$totals = file($myfile);
$var = explode("|", $totals[0]);
$i = number_format($var[0]);
$k = number_format($var[1]);

For some reason this is acting funny. I am getting a null value for $k for some
reason...

Is there a better way to do this?

How To Get The Number Of Values In An Array After I Use Explode
I have the following variable which has three areacodes in it:

$areacode = "305,954,786"

$array = explode(",", $areacode);

after i explode $areacode, How to get the info. how many areacodes are there in($areacode). in the above example it is 3 area codes (305, 954, 786)

$array[0] equals 305
$array[1] equals 954
$array[2] equals 786

Explode Text Area Into Array For MySQL Table
On my site, I have a textarea where users enter their sites' information in the following format (tab-delimited):

Site Name <tab> Site Description <tab> URL <newline>
Site Name <tab> Site Description <tab> URL <newline>
(and so on...)

I know I have to use the "Explode function and a loop to get the data into an array and enter it into a MySQL table. Would anyone have a snippet of code off-hand that could show me how to do this?

Explode()
Why won't this script work. The values in the database are:
http://localhost/file.php, http://localhost/file.htm
Any ideas to where i am going wrong?

Explode?
I've just had anti virus installed on my server. There is a log file that
shows all the viruses that have been trapped. There are lots of different
lines in the log file but the ones I'm interested in look like this:

/var/amavis/amavis-012184/parts/part-00002: Worm.SomeFool.B-petite FOUND

What I want to write a little PHP script that will display the results on a
web page. So, my first task will be to extract only the lines that begine
with /var/amavis, or even only those that end with FOUND.

Then I want to take all the characters between the : and the F and display
those.

It would be nice if I could display a count of how many viruses had been
caught so far.

Lastly, I really only want to display, say, 30 lines at a time.

Then I pop a refresh on the page and we can hopefully see the viruses as
they come in. It's just so I can show customers how clever this is.

I'm going to start digging myself through the PHP manual but if anyone could
offer any guidance I'd be most grateful. I think it might be explode that I
want to use, but I'm not sure. Nor am I sure how to select only the
relevant lines and just display the last 30.

Explode?
We save a xls(Excel) file to a txt separated by tabs. I woud like a script or piece of code that can get line to line and update a mysql database?

PHP Explode()
I am planning on writing a "customer ordering system" and in an effort to conserve database space, I was thinking of setting the "ordered" item_id's into a single column, comma separated.

Now, the explode() function gives me a method of "separating" data (in this case) by the comma. Naturally this would give me an "Array" to loop through and so on. Is this the right idea?

Explode?
I'm pretty baffled at this. I'm not entirely sure why this isn't working:

$filetype= $_POST['file']['type']; // getting the file type
$file = explode('.', $filetype); // exploding the string to return just the file type
$filename = rand() . '.' . $file[1]; // renaming it and then adding the file type back to save the file

I'm trying to retrieve the file type seperately and then rename it.

Explode Twice
I have a sql row with this information:

11/12/07.10am.vs Lions|11/13/07.9am.vs Sharks|11/15/07.9am.Practice|11/16/07.10am.Practice|11/18/07.11am.vs Frogs|

I need to explode the events and then explode the sections. So, basically I need to explode the | which separates the events. Then I need to explode . that separates each item in the event.

How would this look? I have tried different things exploding and foreach and just haven't gotten it to work yet. The above basically needs to create a tables of events...

Explode To <ul><li>
I want to explode a string:

$string = "one, two, three"

As an example, into something like this:
<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li><li>three</li></ul>

I've looked around google, but I know you guys are pretty good. Any ideas?

Explode()
trying to explode a word at every character. i couldve sworn a long time ago i've done explode('', $word). but now it says the delimiter is invalid.
So, how do i accomplish this?

on a side note, #php on freenode is always full and sends me to the overflow channel. does anyone know of another good channel?

Explode Problem
I would like to know if there is a way to
explode a space no matter what it is.

Split/explode - There Must Be A Way!!
I have a text string, say $text = "abcdefg" and I want to split/explode it up so that each individual character is stored in an array.

I've tryed explode, but it wants a delimiter - any ideas?

Explode() Question
If i have the following code:

Question About Explode()
How would I make a variable from the last piece from an explode() function?

I'm having to deal with filenames that have different amounts of "." in them.

Some are normal, such as filename.jpg

Yet some have more dots, such as "file.photo.1.jpg"

So how would I get a variable from the last piece, which is the actual extention?

Bear in mind that not all extentions I'm dealing with have three letters, some are JPG, some are JPEG, so a simple strstr() will now work.

Help With Explode Function
Ok, now I have been working on this for at least a week and I can't figure it out. This is code taken from a news script called Zaimlog where it was originally set up to have each entry stored in a seperate file where the date, time, and entry where stored on seperate lines, but I want to change it so that the date, time, and entry are seperated by "|". I have been working with the explode function and have read stuff on php.net but I really need help here is the code:

Explode-ing QUERY_STRING
I'm trying to write a script that will take the inputs from two fields (region and specialties - view here)and return all rows in a MySQL table that match ANY region and/or ALL specialties selected.

I explained in another help setting that my when I submitted a search with, for example, two regions, and the query string looked like "search.php?location=Toronto&location=KW&submit=Search", when I echoed the value of the query string I got only "KW". They said I can't pass two variables of the same name in one query string, since all but the last will be overwritten. They also told me I had to parse the query string manually.

Now, I've been looking at the PHP manual for just how to do this, and I haven't gotten any farther. I think I need to use the $explode function, but I can't figure out how to use that to get separate variable names for all the regions and/or specialties inputted, or how to change the search function I already have.

The PHP I'm currently working with is here.

Var String Explode?
I exploded a url string into an array like so:

type=eating
numrec=2
drink0=milk
fruit0=apple
dessert0=icecream
adate0=05/02/2002
drink1=beer
fruit1=peach
dessert1=chocolate
adate1=06/02/2002

Note that the variables end with a digit, starting from zero. The first two vars tell what type of posting it is, and how many posts there are. Here we have 2. What I want to do is to make insert statements for MySQL for each variable.

Example: insert into mytable (drink, fruit, dessert, adate) values ("milk", "apple", "icecream', now());

And then another insert -
insert into mytable (drink, fruit, dessert, adate) values ("beer", "peach", "chocolate", now());

Any ideas how I can take these vars I exploded and get rid of the digits at the end and make them into insert statements?

Explode, Split, Or Something Else
I have a string that looks something like: <some stuff><some more stuff><etc>. I want to seperate the information based on ">", but by using explode and split it gets rid of ">". I don't want that to happen. Is there a built in function that I am overlooking that will do this?

Implode <-> Explode
I'm able to figure out how implode() works. Now, my question is: is explode() the opposite of implode()? because, I've written a little test code: you have a select box and you can select multiple options.

I implode these options and I put these in a database (I have too, won't explain it, it's quite hard hehe) so I get somehing like these in my database: option1|option2|option now, i want too extract these variables and put them again in a new select box, and I have to remove those '|', and I think it must be possible with explode() or split(), I'm not sure, I've tried a lot, rtfm', but it didn't work so fare, anyone an idea ? Code:

Explode And Memory
When using explode on a string, you split it up into an array right? Does that array stay in the RAM, or in some weird browser memory/cache? And either way, do I have to empty that memory myself?

Explode Doesn't Seem To Work
$ttt = array();
$ttt = explode("-", "test-niet");
echo "$ttt[0] | $ttt[1] ";

Should give
test | niet

but gives

test-niet |

Which meens the string is cut into 2 pieces. Someone knows what i m doing
wrong?

Query On Explode()
Have a look at the following code

$test = explode('-','one-two-three-four-five');
print_r($test);

Output:
Array
(
[0] =one
[1] =two
[2] =three
[3] =four
[4] =five
)

But What I need is

Array
(
[one] =one
[two] =two
[three] =three
[four] =four
[five] =five
)

List And Explode
I have been searching for a reason for this behavior but no solution
so I figured I would ask.

Basically I have a web page that displays data in a database to the
user for updates/deletion/addition. For each data field ont he web
page I put the data from the database in the field name with teh field
name and data seperated by a |. ex: address|35 Elm St.

I then loop thru all the fields on the form and if the data in the
field name doesnt match the data submitted then update the database.
Here is the code:

foreach ($_REQUEST as $curFld => $Data) {
if ($curFld <> 'Submit') {
list ($field, $orig_data, $table, $id) = explode('|', $curFld);

if ($orig_data <> $_POST[$curFld]) {
//UPDATE DATABASE
$sql = "UPDATE $table SET $field = '".$_POST[$curFld]."' WHERE
ID = $id";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $_SESSION['conn']) or
die(mysql_error());
}
}
}

Here is the problem, either list() or explode() is replacing all
spaces in $orig_data with underscores so 35 Elm St. becomes
35_Elm_St.. This causes the code to always update this field and any
others where this occurs. Obviously I could do this str_replace("_",
" ", $orig)data) to fix this problem but if the user wants to use
underscores I dont want to replace them. (Address is not the only
field on the page.

Explode String
how do you explode string with two conditions, space and newline?

i use strtok but i could only use 1 condition
i cannot use the 2 condition space and newline

i want to explode a string with if a string has a space and newline?
how do i do that?

Explode Function
I want PHP to read data I have stored in a text file to pull out certain pieces of data. Right now when you log in - I want it to check my user text file to determine if the data is there. If so, I want the page to welcome the person - if not to let them know there is no match.

Right now the page always returns no matches and I think it is in the function. I believe it is how the function is reading the file. I think if I explode the data in the text file, I might get it to work properly but i am not sure how. The current function is: Code:

PHP Explode -> All Characters Before The First Dot
I basically need to remove all characters of a string before the first dot for an example:

I have a phrase: statistics.STATUS

this should be the result: STATUS

this is a post var dinamically loaded, so i don't know if to use str_replace or there is another function that i can call.

Explode What The User Submits
I have an form that inserts stuff into the table but one of fields could have a "/" in it so in my insert script page I have all m y insert script stuff.

You'll notice that I put in the explode stuff but perhaps not in the right spot and in my sql statement I just put $positions rather than '".$positions."'

Fread, Explode, And Eof Problem
I have a 'random quotes' plugin that I use which reads tab delimited
quotes from multiple text files in a directory, and then randomly
displays one. Each text file contains multiple lines, each listing a
person and a quote, separated by a tab, and each file is based around a
topic. I use fopen and fread to suck in all the text, and then explode
to separate into an array of names and quotes. It is working fine with
one small exception. When I run explode, the very last line of one file
ends up merged with the first line of the next file, presumably because
it isn't sensing the end of the last line in a file. So instead of
displaying <name1>, <quote1as it should, I get <name1>,
<quote1><name2occassionally. I'm currently working around this by
including a blank line at the end of each text file, and then filtering
out any random hits on that blank line, but I know their is a better
way (I just don't know what it is, I'm fairly new to PHP). Below is
the code I'm using to generate the array, does anyone have any
suggestions on how to get around this problem (and of course if their
is a completely different but better way of doing this I'm all ears)?

$dir = opendir($lpath);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
if (eregi(".txt",$f)){
$quoteFile = fopen($lpath.'/'.$f, "r");
while (!feof($quoteFile)) {
$quotes .= fread($quoteFile,1024);
}
}
}
$quotes = explode("
", $quotes);

How Can I Explode A String On Every Char?
$string=explode("", $number)' I have a string that I need to 'explode' at every character, but I can't figure out why? Any Ideas?

PHP Explode And Line Terminators
I have a string containing concatenated ascii "records" that are each
terminated by '
'.

For testing purposes, I construct sample data like this...

$mystring = "a|b|c|d
"."e|f|g|h
"."i|j|k|l
"."m|n|o|p
";

I want to use explode() to put the records into an array like this...

$records = explode("
", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'
'

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

Special Char. In Explode()
I've written a program which downloads a number of pages from a certain
website. However, it seems to have a problem with special characters. I
believe that the following piece of code is responsible for this:

$page_result = explode ("
", $page_result);
$page_result = @$page_result[饴'];

Somehow, it seems that the code which was in the original text:

 P(U03B1, ~Î²) = 1 - P(Î±,
Î²), </blockquote>
is being transformed to this:
 P(U03B1, ~ÃŽÂ²) = 1 - P(ÃŽÂ±,
ÃŽÂ²), </blockquote>

Can anyone tell me why this happens and how I can fix this...

Explode Mysql Cell Value
is there a way to explode a cell value within a mysql statement for example:

("SELECT * FROM image_files WHERE details = 'Explode("-",details')Return array[2]'")

hope that kinda makes sense. I want to explode the value in column details at the "-" and get the third value sent in the array as it would if using the php explode feature.

Implode, Explode Problems
I am trying to make a script work for a game I am working on at the moment. The problem comes at the explode() and implode() functions.

I am pulling an array out of a database with 5 items in it (ex. 1,0,0,0,0) Once the array is pulled I change one of the zeros to a new number and then implode the array back into the variable then back to the database. There is also a check to make sure that you have an open zero to use and change.Here is the code:

Search String After Explode
How to search the string after explode

$name=$_POST['name']
$lines= file(data.txt);
foreach ($lines as $line) {
$text_line = explode(":" , $line);
}

Search the name in $text_line[0] whether the name is present or not

Explode Input Then Add Them On By On With Spaces
still not getting my search right trying something else, i have explode on the input, setting them to diffrent values, no i do a normal query with the last value if not found loops and the adds the 3rd value with the 4th value " remeber space in between, then run the same query, is there any other easier way..havent ran it yet, just want to get the explode to add automaticly the amount of input words " hotels new york" so

$words = addslashes(str_replace($removal_strings, "", $_POST["inputTxt"]));
$find = explode(" ", $words);

$find1 = $find[0]; // hotels
$find2 = $find[1]; // new
$find3 = $find[2]; // york

then i run my query anything like the last word....get nothing, works on exact match, "like" no i wanne loop if nothing is found and then add $find2 and $find3 together and then do my query again, because if the input is only new york is should also work, then i can filter the records found in new york and look for the first input "hotels", then is should work perfectly, any ideas.
i know exactly what i want to do but dont know how.

Explode Individual Characters
<?PHP
$var = 'hello everybody
$tar = explode('', $var);
foreach($tar as $key => $val)
{
if($val != 'e')
{
echo $val;
}
}
?>

this does not work. the error tells me that the explode delimeter is empty but this is what i want. im trying to explode the string into an array of its letters instead of just its words. is there another way of doing this then?

Parsing A Webpage And Explode()ing It Into Tables
So far I've found/gotten this far on my parser code...

Count The Value Separated Through Explode Function
Currently i'm using an explode function to separate the value from a variable...

For Example,
$var1='username,user_type,filetoload'
$var2=explode(",",$var1);

So from here i can extract these 3 values separately...

$extract1=$var2[0];
$extract2=$var2[1];
$extract3=$var2[2];

My question is, how do I want to count that this explode function has extracted 3 values? maybe from the variable $var1='username,user_type,filetoload'
is it possible that i know $var1 contains 3 values ..?

Undefined Offset Notice With Explode
I'm having a problem with PHP which I'm not sure how to best solve.
Here is the code:

$fp = fopen("comments.txt", "r");
while(!feof($fp))
{
$line = fgets($fp, 1024);
list($key, $value) = explode(":", $line, 2);

if ($key == "something")
{
...etc...etc...

The problem here is that if the line doesn't contain a : then there
isn't anything to populate $key and $value and so PHP reports "PHP
Notice: Undefined offset: 1". When I used to work with Perl, it
wouldn't report and rely on me handling the issue later if needs be.

What is the best way to get the explode line to not report a PHP notice
when it comes across a $line that isn't in the correct format?

Split Or Explode Per Number Of Words
is there a way to split or explode a big chunk of text into lines containing a specific number of words? I've tried to explode using punctuation marks but it doesn't serve my purpose.

Counting Results Of Explode() Function
i want to find out how many elements are in the array created in an explode() function, ala mysql_num_rows($array) for mysql queries. any ideas?

Display Specifc Field From Explode String
I am trying to display a single field from an explode string. I have no idea how to do this. The script already explodes the string and loops the data displaying it in table format. Code:

Assigning A Multi-dimensional Array To & From A Session Variable Loses The Array
I have created a multidimensional array and then assigned that array to a session variable so that I can use it easily on another page. However, when I go to the array later, there's never anything in it. Code:

Selecting Array Rows Based On An Array Of Field=>values
Here's the code i have:

$db = array(); //main array
$db['main'] = array(); //table `main`
$db['main'][] = array('id'=>0,
'username'=>'joshfrench','userpass'=>'password','userlevel'=>'admin');
//row
$db['main'][] = array('id'=>1,
'username'=>'bob_smith','userpass'=>'psswrd','userlevel'=>'user');
//row

function trim_value(&$value){
$value = strtolower(trim($value));
}
function fdb_select($fields = "*", $table, $where = false, $limit =
false){
global $db;
$retv = $db[$table];

//LIMIT RESULTS TO FIELDS
if(strrpos($fields, ",") === false){$field=array($fields);}else{$field
= explode(",", $fields);};
array_walk($field, "trim_value");
$all_fields = array_keys($retv[0]);
if($fields == '*'|| is_null($fields)){$field = $all_fields;};
$field = array_uintersect($all_fields, $field, "strcasecmp");
$retvi = array();
foreach($retv as $num =$row){
foreach($row as $fname =$fvalue){
$fname1 = strtolower($fname);
if(in_array($fname1, $field)){
$retvi[$num][$fname]=$fvalue;
};
};
};
//DONE LIMITING TO FIELDS
if($where != false){

//UP TO HERE IT WORKS FINE
//LIMIT TO WHERE CLAUSE
$retvj = array();
foreach($retvi as $num =$row){
//IN THE ROW
foreach($where as $k =$v){
//IF ROW MEETS ALL REQUIREMENTS
if($row[$k] == $v){
$retvj[] = $retvi[$num]; //Keep that row
};
};
};
//DONE LIMITING TO WHERE CLAUSE
};
$retvi = (isset($retvj)) ? $retvj:$retvi;
//SEND A FINAL ASSOCIATIVE ARRAY
return $retvi;
};
print_r(fdb_select("*", "main", array('id'=>"1",
"username"=>"joshfrench")));

the previous code outputs this:

Array
(
[0] =Array
(
[id] =0
[username] =joshfrench
[userpass] =password
[userlevel] =admin
)

[1] =Array
(
[id] =1
[username] =bob_smith
[userpass] =psswrd
[userlevel] =user
)

)

Explode Array

The following code checks to make sure the same song is not immediately requested. PHP Code: