PHP - E-mail Length

Hello to all out there!
this is my first post,so my question may sound a bit simple. :]
I am studying PHP and MySQL and I tried to make a mailing form based on a mysql database.

My problem occured when I tried to use the PEAR mail object.

Here is my code:

// THE INCLUDED FILES
require_once ("attach_file.php"   );
require_once ("Mail.php"        );
require_once ("Mail\mime.php"   );

//THE VARIABLES TAKEN FROM THE HTML FORM OR JUST CREATED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EMAIL
$my_email      = "something@gmail.com";
$email_subject = mysql_real_escape_string(trim( $_POST['email_subject']),$server_connect );
$email_body    = mysql_real_escape_string(trim( $_POST['email_body']   ),$server_connect );


$attached_file = $destination ;     // the $destination variable comes from the copy() function in attach_file.php
$username      = "the_username@gmail.com";
$password      = "the_password";
$host          = "smtp.gmail.com";

$attach        = new Mail_mime();
$attach -> addAttachment($attached_file);
$email_body    = $attach->get();

$extraheaders = array('from'=>$my_email,'to'=>$email_etaireias,'subject'=>$email_subject,'Bcc'=>$email_etaireias);
$headers       = $attach -> $headers($extraheaders);   // HERE GIVES ME AN ERROR!!! -->Fatal error: Method name must be a string

$smtp_info     = array('host'=>$host,'auth'=>TRUE,'username'=>$username,'password'=>$password);
$smtp          = Mail::factory('smtp',$smtp_info);


//loop through every single line of the database until there are no more lines with data
//and store each line in 3 different variables that i can use
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) )
{ $onoma_etaireias = $row['onoma_etaireias'];
  $email_etaireias = $row['email_etaireias'];
  $website_etaireias = $row['website_etaireias'];   }

//construct the mail function .  The @ is supressing the errors created .remove it and they will be shown.
$mail = @$smtp->send($email_etaireias,$headers,$email_body);



As i searched here and there for a solution, i found that it has something to do with the way the mail-mime object creates the body of the email . I also tried to find a solution from the PEAR documentation.
do i create the headers someway wrong?????

I am using magento for sending mail with condition,

My code:

<?php
class Gta_MerchantNotification_Model_Observer {
    public function merchantremainder($Observer) {
       $order = $Observer->getEvent()->getOrder();
       $order_details = $order->getAllVisibleItems();

       $itemData = array();
       foreach ($order_details as $list) {
          $incrementid = $order->getIncrementId();
          $sku = $list->getsku();
          $name = $list->getName();
          $price = $list->getPrice();
          $Qty = $list->getQtyOrdered();
          $extra = $order->getIncrementId();
          $message = 

          "
          <tr>
          <!-- <td>$incrementid</td> -->
          <td>$sku</td>
          <td>$name</td>
          <td>$price</td>
          <td>$Qty</td>
          </tr>";

          $itemData[$list->getId()] = $message;

      }
  
      $finalMessage =  "
      <p>Order Id : $incrementid</p>
      <table border='1'>

      <tr>
      <!-- <th>Id</th> -->
      <th>Sku</th>
      <th>Product name</th>
      <th>Price</th>
      <th>Qty Ordered</th>
      </tr>";
      if (!empty($itemData)) {
          foreach ($itemData as $data) {
             $finalMessage .= $data;
         }

         $finalMessage .= "</table>";
         $this->sendMail($finalMessage);
     }

 }

 public function sendMail($message) {
   $body ="$message";
   $emailTemplate = Mage::getModel('core/email');
   $emailTemplate->setFromName('abc');
   $emailTemplate->setBody($body);
   $emailTemplate->setSubject("Custom Email from observer");
   $emailTemplate->setType('html');
   $emailTemplate->setToEmail('abc@gmail.com');
   $emailTemplate->send();

}
}

?>

 

Output :

 

If order placed mail send to abc@gmail.com.
How to set email sender based on SKU $sku from order.

I want :

1) If SKU starts with 2, email should go to the mail id abc@gmail.com,
screenshot :

 

2) If SKU starts with 3, email should go to the mail id xyz@gmail.com,
screenshot :

 

3) If SKU starts with 4, email should go to the mail id qwe@gmail.com,
screenshot :

 

FYI - If an order contains 10 items email should go separately based on SKU. But an order id the same must include all the emails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello there,

I've come across a issue with using PHP's mail function due to the fact I've tried a assortment of different headers yet Hotmail continues to place my sent emails in the junk folder.

Here is my method of emailing my clients:


function Email($AccountID, $Subject, $Message)
{
if($this->IsValidAccount($AccountID))
{
$Account = $this->AccountKeys($AccountID);

$headers .= 'To: '.$Account['account_client'].' <'.$Account['account_email'].'>' . "\r\n";

$headers .= "From: X-Host <no-reply@X-Host.co.uk>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: X-Host <no-reply@X-Host.co.uk>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-Path: no-reply@X-Host.co.uk\r\n"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Organization: X-Host\r\n";
echo $Account['account_email']. $Subject. $Message;

return mail($Account['account_email'], $Subject, $Message, $headers);
}
else return InvalidAccount;
}


So could anybody help me out please and tell me what headers I should be using.

Hi all,

I'm coding an automated mailer for a dentist office. They set appointment dates through a web interface, and then this appointment is mailed to the customer via PHP's mail() function.

However, some users are not receving the mail. They claim that it is not even in the junk mail folder. Is it because I'm setting or not setting certain properties in the header? Should I be setting something else?

Here is my code
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ini_set("SMTP", "mail.isp-provider.net");
$headers = 'From: Schedule Manager <schedule@address.com>' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: Schedule Manager <schedule@address.com>' . "\r\n" .
'Bcc: internal@address.com' . "\r\n" .
'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($customerAddress, $subject, $body, $headers);
Note that customerAddress, subject, and body are all just regular normal strings.

As I said, it works for most customers, but some customers do not receive the emails.

Hi,
I found a couple of topics in the search on this but can't resolve my problem.
I have a cart and want to mail it to myself and the client. The cart I'm using works fine but the moment I "check out" (mail the order) it gives a error. I build an error trap but see nothing wrong then I tried a different way to send the order in html with no avail.
6x files I use: Index.php -The products I'm selling and "add to chart"
                      Cart.php - To update and display the products in the basket
                      SendOrder.php - To mail the cart etc. to me and client
as the main files and some functions, db connection and global's...
1) Index.php by Simon Mayer

<?php
// Start the session
session_start();
// Include MySQL class
require_once('inc/mysql.class.php');
// Include database connection
require_once('inc/global.inc.php');
// Include functions
require_once('inc/functions.inc.php');
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>MedSET Store</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css" >
</head>

<body>
<div id="shoppingcart">

<h1>Your Shopping Cart</h1>

<?php
echo writeShoppingCart();
?>

</div>

<div id="booklist">

<h1>Products</h1>

<?php
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY id';
$result = $db->query($sql);
$output[] = '<ul>';
while ($row = $result->fetch()) {
$output[] = '<li>"'.$row['title'].'" by '.$row['author'].': &pound;'.$row['price'].'<br /><a href="cart.php?action=add&id='.$row['id'].'">Add to cart</a></li>';
}
$output[] = '</ul>';
echo join('',$output);
?>

</div>

</body>
</html>


2)Cart.php by Simon Mayer

<?php
// Start the session
session_start();
// Include MySQL class
require_once('inc/mysql.class.php');
// Include database connection
require_once('inc/global.inc.php');
// Include functions
require_once('inc/functions.inc.php');

// Process actions
$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];
$action = $_GET['action'];
switch ($action) {
case 'add':
if ($cart) {
$cart .= ','.$_GET['id'];
} else {
$cart = $_GET['id'];
}
break;
case 'delete':
if ($cart) {
$items = explode(',',$cart);
$newcart = '';
foreach ($items as $item) {
if ($_GET['id'] != $item) {
if ($newcart != '') {
$newcart .= ','.$item;
} else {
$newcart = $item;
}
}
}
$cart = $newcart;
}
break;
case 'update':
if ($cart) {
$newcart = '';
foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
if (stristr($key,'qty')) {
$id = str_replace('qty','',$key);
$items = ($newcart != '') ? explode(',',$newcart) : explode(',',$cart);
$newcart = '';
foreach ($items as $item) {
if ($id != $item) {
if ($newcart != '') {
$newcart .= ','.$item;
} else {
$newcart = $item;
}
}
}
for ($i=1;$i<=$value;$i++) {
if ($newcart != '') {
$newcart .= ','.$id;
} else {
$newcart = $id;
}
}
}
}
}
$cart = $newcart;
break;
}
$_SESSION['cart'] = $cart;

?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>MedSET Store</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css" >
</head>

<body>

<div id="shoppingcart">

<h1>Your Shopping Cart</h1>

<?php
echo writeShoppingCart();
?>

</div>

<div id="contents">

<h1>Please check quantities...</h1>

<?php
echo showCart();
?>
<form action="sendOrder.php" method="post"> //I added the action file to handle the form
<input type="submit" name="sendmail" value="Check Out" >
</form>
<p><a href="index.php">Continue Shopping...</a></p>

</div>

</body>
</html>


      2.1)MySQL.class.php

<?php
/**
* MySQL Database Connection Class
* @access public
* @package SPLIB
*/
class MySQL {
    /**
    * MySQL server hostname
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $host;

    /**
    * MySQL username
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $dbUser;

    /**
    * MySQL user's password
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $dbPass;

    /**
    * Name of database to use
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $dbName;

    /**
    * MySQL Resource link identifier stored here
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $dbConn;

    /**
    * Stores error messages for connection errors
    * @access private
    * @var string
    */
    var $connectError;

    /**
    * MySQL constructor
    * @param string host (MySQL server hostname)
    * @param string dbUser (MySQL User Name)
    * @param string dbPass (MySQL User Password)
    * @param string dbName (Database to select)
    * @access public
    */
    function MySQL ($host,$dbUser,$dbPass,$dbName) {
        $this->host=$host;
        $this->dbUser=$dbUser;
        $this->dbPass=$dbPass;
        $this->dbName=$dbName;
        $this->connectToDb();
    }

    /**
    * Establishes connection to MySQL and selects a database
    * @return void
    * @access private
    */
    function connectToDb () {
        // Make connection to MySQL server
        if (!$this->dbConn = @mysql_connect($this->host,
                                      $this->dbUser,
                                      $this->dbPass)) {
            trigger_error('Could not connect to server');
            $this->connectError=true;
        // Select database
        } else if ( !@mysql_select_db($this->dbName,$this->dbConn) ) {
            trigger_error('Could not select database');
            $this->connectError=true;
        }
    }

    /**
    * Checks for MySQL errors
    * @return boolean
    * @access public
    */
    function isError () {
        if ( $this->connectError )
            return true;
        $error=mysql_error ($this->dbConn);
        if ( empty ($error) )
            return false;
        else
            return true;
    }

    /**
    * Returns an instance of MySQLResult to fetch rows with
    * @param $sql string the database query to run
    * @return MySQLResult
    * @access public
    */
    function query($sql) {
        if (!$queryResource=mysql_query($sql,$this->dbConn))
            trigger_error ('Query failed: '.mysql_error($this->dbConn).
                           ' SQL: '.$sql);
        return new MySQLResult($this,$queryResource);
    }
}

/**
* MySQLResult Data Fetching Class
* @access public
* @package SPLIB
*/
class MySQLResult {
    /**
    * Instance of MySQL providing database connection
    * @access private
    * @var MySQL
    */
    var $mysql;

    /**
    * Query resource
    * @access private
    * @var resource
    */
    var $query;

    /**
    * MySQLResult constructor
    * @param object mysql   (instance of MySQL class)
    * @param resource query (MySQL query resource)
    * @access public
    */
    function MySQLResult(& $mysql,$query) {
        $this->mysql=& $mysql;
        $this->query=$query;
    }

    /**
    * Fetches a row from the result
    * @return array
    * @access public
    */
    function fetch () {
        if ( $row=mysql_fetch_array($this->query,MYSQL_ASSOC) ) {
            return $row;
        } else if ( $this->size() > 0 ) {
            mysql_data_seek($this->query,0);
            return false;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
    * Returns the number of rows selected
    * @return int
    * @access public
    */
    function size () {
        return mysql_num_rows($this->query);
    }

    /**
    * Returns the ID of the last row inserted
    * @return int
    * @access public
    */
    function insertID () {
        return mysql_insert_id($this->mysql->dbConn);
    }
    
    /**
    * Checks for MySQL errors
    * @return boolean
    * @access public
    */
    function isError () {
        return $this->mysql->isError();
    }
}
?>

   2.2)Global.inc.php

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'MyUserName';
$pass = 'MyPassword';
$name = 'MyDataBase';
$db = &new MySQL($host,$user,$pass,$name);
?>


   2.3)Function.inc.php

<?php
function writeShoppingCart() {
$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];
if (!$cart) {
return '<p>You have no items in your shopping cart</p>';
} else {
// Parse the cart session variable
$items = explode(',',$cart);
$s = (count($items) > 1) ? 's':'';
return '<p>You have <a href="cart.php">'.count($items).' item'.$s.' in your shopping cart</a></p>';
}
}

function showCart() {
global $db;
$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];
if ($cart) {
$items = explode(',',$cart);
$contents = array();
foreach ($items as $item) {
$contents[$item] = (isset($contents[$item])) ? $contents[$item] + 1 : 1;
}
$output[] = '<form action="cart.php?action=update" method="post" id="cart">';
$output[] = '<table>';
foreach ($contents as $id=>$qty) {
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM books WHERE id = '.$id;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch();
extract($row);
$output[] = '<tr>';
$output[] = '<td><a href="cart.php?action=delete&id='.$id.'" class="r">Remove</a></td>';
$output[] = '<td>'.$title.' by '.$author.'</td>';
$output[] = '<td>&pound;'.$price.'</td>';
$output[] = '<td><input type="text" name="qty'.$id.'" value="'.$qty.'" size="3" maxlength="3" /></td>';
$output[] = '<td>&pound;'.($price * $qty).'</td>';
$total += $price * $qty;
$output[] = '</tr>';
}
$output[] = '</table>';
$output[] = '<p>Grand total: <strong>&pound;'.$total.'</strong></p>';
$output[] = '<div><button type="submit">Update cart</button></div>';
$output[] = '</form>';
} else {
$output[] = '<p>You shopping cart is empty.</p>';
}
return join('',$output);
}
?>

     
3)SendOrder.php

<?php 
$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];
$to = "me@myself.com";
$subject =  "MedSET Order";
$message = "<html>
<head>
<title>Email Order<Title>
</head>
<body>
This is my message in body
</body>";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: "email address" <an email existing on same server as shopping cart>' .  "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject,$message,$headers,$cart);

?>


Any help will be appreciated...

system: vista ultimate sp2
IIS 7 server installed and running
PHP 5
fastCGI

im not sure if this is within the purview of the forum but you all seem like smart people with an expertise in this area.

i have a web site http://penumbraproductions.dyndns-remote.com/ .  it is hosted locally on my desktop using the above mentioned IIS7 server options using dyndns to list the url cause my ISP has DHCP without static ip's for non-business accounts

that has a contact form... form mail.  i've tried numerous php codes to get it to send mail to my email account but none of them are working

my IIS smtp setting a
email to: archaismic@gmail.com
smtp server: smtp.gmail.com
port number: 465
using login credentials

i've also tried to configuring the smtp options in IIS to dump the mail to a folder on my computer which also did not work

attached is the feedback.php file im currently working with minus the captcha private key

and the code for the form i'm using is:

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<form action="feedback.php" method="post">
<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="8">
<tr><td><label for="tswname">Name</label>:</td><td><input type="text" name="fullname" id="tswname" size="25" /></td></tr>
<tr><td><label for="tswemail">Email address</label>:</td><td><input type="text" id="tswemail" name="email" size="25" /></td></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<label for="tswcomments">Comments</label><br />
<textarea rows="15" cols="45" name="comments" id="tswcomments"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=6LcYjcASAAAAAH1NwZ0IH_TUO4XDANZqWu3Ei9yh"></script>
<noscript>
<iframe src="http://api.recaptcha.net/noscript?k=6LcYjcASAAAAAH1NwZ0IH_TUO4XDANZqWu3Ei9yh" height="300" width="500" frameborder="0" title="CAPTCHA test"></iframe>
<br />
<label for="tswcaptcha">Copy and paste the code provided in above box he </label><br />
<textarea name="recaptcha_challenge_field" id="tswcaptcha" rows="3" cols="40"></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="recaptcha_response_field" value="manual_challenge" />
</noscript>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2">
<input type="submit" value="Send Feedback" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

I've got an enormous page for a pretty complex process.  I just posted some changes, and it stopped functioning.  Through multiple tests, I determined there was no problem with the code; it was just becomes too large at a certain point.  I've read about changing settings in the php.ini file, but I'm not exactly sure what to change or what to bump it up to to allow for this huge page.  Here are some current settings that I'm guessing control this problem:

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max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 8M

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M



Does anyone have any insight into what to change or what settings might allow for a larger page?  Not sure which one of these settings controls my problem.  Thanks, as always, for any help.

Hi all,   The output of the following line of code where user is Jack1234

$user = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'user', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

using var_dump is 

string 'Jack1234' (length=8)

I would like to know if there is someway we can use/retrieve the length value of the string that is displayed in the output or verify the string length against it.    Thanks.

Howdy,

I have a page on my site that displays events I have uploaded.  Below is the code that displays the event title.

I want to know if there is a simple way to limit the characters of the title that a view will see.  For example, limiting the title to 10 characters.  So, if I had an event titled "My awesome new event".  You would see "My awesome..."

Hope this makes sense.  I'm not sure if you will need to see more of the code to help me, thank you!


<a href ="event-description.php?eid=<?php echo $data->EventId?>"<span class="events-title"><?php echo $data->EventTitle ?>

Hey there, need some help badly.

I'm trying to get the size of the BLOB data in mysql. Did a search and there are like no tutorial on this. Only relevant info was from this page, at the far bottom, it just wrote this (below code). But the writer did not explain how to use it.

SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(content) FROM BloBTest WHERE filename='myimage.png'

I just give it a trial an error, wrote this, but did not work.

$LENGTH = mysql_query("SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(blobdata) FROM thedatabase WHERE id = 'selected_id'");
echo $LENGTH;

Please help....

$file = 'includes/views.txt';
$f = fopen($file, 'w+');
$views = fread($f, filesize($file));
fwrite($f, $views+1);
fclose($f);


The contents of views.txt is:
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1

Why is it returning it needs to be greater than 0?...The file isn't empty.

For PHP 7.4, what is the recommended session length that I should be using to have the best security?

In DEV< in my php.ini file, session.sid_length = 26

According to the comments above that, it sounds like you can go up to 256.

Is it fair to assume that larger is more secure?

Also, if I set it to a larger size like 256, is tehre any risk of breaking things on my (VPS) web server running WHM/cPanel?

Hello everyone,

I've searched these forums for a while now trying to resolve a problem that I have with my sessions timing out before I would like them to, but I've only gotten confused about it.  I've read about changing some settings or adding code in my php.ini file but I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to that.  I'm starting the session simply by having session_start(); at the top of each of my pages.  I'm including a copy of my entire php.ini file here so that you can see what I have already.  Can someone please help me to figure out what I would need to do to make my sessions last at least 8 hours?  Thanks in advance.

Here's my php.ini file:
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register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = off

expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = "EGPCS"
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="


; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support

;[Zend]
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so
;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so


; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed!
; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site.

;disable_functions = "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,
;       phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,
;                     popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"

I have an integer that I'd like to validate to ensure that it is a valid number between 1 and 99999999999999999999(20 digits).

I'm thinking about using the following, but I'm not sure what the max range is on the FILTER_VALIDATE_INT options.

return filter_var($_REQUEST['r'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, array("options" => array("min_range"=>1, "max_range"=>99999999999999999999)));

I am trying to figure out a way of filtering certain words from a string using str_replace - However i would like to replace the words with something showing the correct length of the word.

So far I have got:

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<?php

$input = "Oranges, apples, and pears are all types of fruit!";
$words = array("oranges","apples","pears");

function convertType($x) {
$maskWords = array();
$convertChar = "*";
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($x); $i++) {
array_push($maskWords, $convertChar);
}
$convertString = implode(".", $maskWords);
$stripString = str_replace(".", "", $convertString);
return $stripString;
}

for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) {
$input = str_ireplace($words[$i], convertType($words[$i]), $input);
}

print $input;

?>
As I am fairly new to PHP I am not sure if this is the most effiicent way of doing this so I was hoping somebody could provide some input for me. For instance is there a function to convert the array into a full-length string without using a delimiter?

Thanks!