PHP - Remove Commas From Search String And Pass Results To A Query

Hi, i have a query string id=5&start=0 that i want to remove from the url and return the url without it. I am searching a cleaner way for doing it. Here is an example :

Before : http://www.example.com/?a=3&id=5&start=0
After : http://www.example.com/?a=3

Before : http://www.example.com/?id=5&start=0
After : http://www.example.com/

Before : http://www.example.com/?alpha=1&id=5&start=0&beta=2
After : http://www.example.com/?alpha=1&beta=2

Thank you
Edited by Dareros, 11 August 2014 - 04:06 PM.

I have the following function, which takes a string with commas in it and attempts remove those commas. The way I have it here is that I use explode to take out the commas, which makes an array, and then iterate through that array to put a string back together without the commas.

function tags_to_sort_by( $sortMeta ) {      
   $sortByArray = explode(",", $sortMeta);
   $sortByCount = count($sortByArray);
   for ($i = 0; $i < $sortByCount; $i++) {
      $sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];
   }
   return $sortByString;
}

What does not work is the following line:
$sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];
Somehow that outputs a 0, which I don't understand. It should output something like: arrayItem1 arrayItem2 array3 etc.

My question is if there either is an easier way to remove the commas from the original string or what I am doing wrong in this line:
$sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];  // I am trying to concatenate each part of the array back into the string.

Thanks a lot for help with this!

Hello,

I have a search engine on my website that uses the following code:
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//SQL FOR *SEARCH.PHP

$table = "videos";
  $search = $_GET['q'];
  // explode search words into an array
  $arraySearch = explode(" ", $_GET['q']);
  // table fields to search
  $arrayFields = array(0 => "title", 1 => "titletext", 2 => "tags", 3 => "originaltitle", 4 => "url");
  $countSearch = count($arraySearch);
  $a = 0;
  $b = 0;
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$table."  WHERE status ='1' AND (";
  $countFields = count($arrayFields);
  while ($a < $countFields)
  {
    while ($b < $countSearch)
    {
      $sql = $sql."$arrayFields[$a] LIKE '%$arraySearch[$b]%'";
      $b++;
      if ($b < $countSearch)
      {
        $sql = $sql." AND ";
      }
    }
    $b = 0;
    $a++;
    if ($a < $countFields)
    {
      $sql = $sql.") OR (";
    }
  }
  $sql = $sql.") ORDER BY (videos.up-videos.down) DESC
LIMIT $start, $limit";

$result = mysql_query($sql);


My problem is that the SQL Query includes even videos that have STATUS='0' .. I only want the STATUS='1' to be shown.. How come? Thanks for help

I'm hoping this is a simple question.
When I use the code below, my twitter search query appears in BOLD within the returned results. I would like to style the search term differently. I can use CSS to style the avatar, author, and other information within the returned results etc, but I can't figure out how to style the search term ($q) within the returned twitter information. Any help would be much appreciated.

<?php

class twitter_class
{    
    function twitter_class()
    {
        $this->realNamePattern = '/\((.*?)\)/';
        $this->searchURL = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=';
        
        $this->intervalNames   = array('second', 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year');
        $this->intervalSeconds = array( 1,        60,       3600,   86400, 604800, 2630880, 31570560);
        
        $this->badWords = array('somebadword', 'anotherbadword');
    }

    function getTweets($q, $limit=15)
    {
        $output = '';

        // get the search result
        $ch= curl_init($this->searchURL . urlencode($q));

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
        $response = curl_exec($ch);

        if ($response !== FALSE)
        {
            $xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
    
            $output = '';
            $tweets = 0;
            
            for($i=0; $i<count($xml->entry); $i++)
            {
                $crtEntry = $xml->entry[$i];
                $account  = $crtEntry->author->uri;
                $image    = $crtEntry->link[1]->attributes()->href;
                $tweet    = $crtEntry->content;
    
                // skip tweets containing banned words
                $foundBadWord = false;
                foreach ($this->badWords as $badWord)
                {
                    if(stristr($tweet, $badWord) !== FALSE)
                    {
                        $foundBadWord = true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                
                $tweet = str_replace('<a href=', '<a target="_blank" href=', $tweet);
                
                // skip this tweet containing a banned word
                if ($foundBadWord)
                    continue;

                // don't process any more tweets if at the limit
                if ($tweets==$limit)
                    break;
                $tweets++;
    
                // name is in this format "acountname (Real Name)"
                preg_match($this->realNamePattern, $crtEntry->author->name, $matches);
                $name = $matches[1];
    
                // get the time passed between now and the time of tweet, don't allow for negative
                // (future) values that may have occured if server time is wrong
                $time = 'just now';
                $secondsPassed = time() - strtotime($crtEntry->published);

                if ($secondsPassed>0)
                {
                    // see what interval are we in
                    for($j = count($this->intervalSeconds)-1; ($j >= 0); $j--)
                    {
                        $crtIntervalName = $this->intervalNames[$j];
                        $crtInterval = $this->intervalSeconds[$j];
                            
                        if ($secondsPassed >= $crtInterval)
                        {
                            $value = floor($secondsPassed / $crtInterval);
                            if ($value > 1)
                                $crtIntervalName .= 's';
                                
                            $time = $value . ' ' . $crtIntervalName . ' ago';
                            
                            break; 
                        }
                    }
                }
                
                $output .= '
                <div class="tweet">
                    <div class="avatar">
                        <a href="' . $account . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $image .'"></a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="message">
                        <span class="author"><a href="' . $account . '"  target="_blank">' . $name . '</a></span>: ' . 
                        $tweet . 
                        '<span class="time"> - ' . $time . '</span>
                    </div>
                </div>';
            }
        }
        else
            $output = '<div class="tweet"><span class="error">' . curl_error($ch) . '</span></div>';
        
        curl_close($ch);
        return $output;
    }
}

?>


The HTML I have been using with this code is here
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Twitter</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
  require('twitter.class.php');
  $twitter = new twitter_class();
  echo $twitter->getTweets('example search term', 10);
?>
</body>
</html>
This is not my code. It is from a tutorial that can be accessed from here >> http://www.richnetapps.com/php-twitter-search-parser/

Say a user puts in a support request, and for every request it generates a unqiue string, and enters it into the database.

Ok, now say there is a text field, when the user enters their unique string and it finds a match, it displays the data along with it.

How can I accomplish this? Im kind of new to mysql, but I know basic SQL.

Would be great if somebody could point me in the right direction!

Thanks