PHP - Help With Grabbing Random On Refresh

Hi guys...   I was at home and doing some coding and stumbled across and API for a computer game called Battlefield 4 http://api.bf4stats....ApRiL&output=js;   I was checking it out and it is a LOT of data.  I was wondering if its possible to only pull certain data from the API, say for instance you only want to pull your user name, ID, and what game you are playing (those are the top 3 things).  How would you pull only those 3 stats and display that information on say a webpage for you?   thanks guys   JL

Currently I am using this very popular code to get all the football scores:
Code: [Select]
$title = $params->get('title');
$fontc = $params->get('fontc');
$fonts = $params->get('fonts');


//this array contains sports and their URLs
$sports = array(
"NFL" => "http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/bottomline/scores");
$results = array();
foreach ( $sports as $sport => $url ) {
  //get the page pointed to by $url
    $page = file_get_contents($url);
    //grab all variables out of the page
    preg_match_all("/&([^=]+)=([^&]+)/", urldecode($page), $foo);
    //loop through all the variables on the page
    foreach ( $foo[1] as $key => $value ) {
      //debug output, you can delete this next line
      //echo "{$value} = {$foo[2][$key]}\t<br />\n";
    //this chain of IF/elseif statements is used to determine which pattern to use
    //to strip out the correct data, since each sport seems to have its own format
    //for the variables you'd "want"
    if ( $sport == "NFL" && preg_match("/s_left\d+/", $value) ) {
      $results[$sport][] = $foo[2][$key];
    } 
    }   
     
}

//calculate the sport with the most number of rows
$limit = 0;
foreach ( $results as $countMe ) {
  $limit = max($limit, count($countMe));
}

//spit out the table with the right headers

echo "<td><b> $title </b></td><br><BR>";
"<table border=4 cellpadding=10><tr><th>" . implode("</th><th>", array_keys($sports)). "</th></tr>" ;
//loop until you reach the max number of rows, printing out all the table rows you want
for ( $p = 0; $p < $limit; $p++ ) {
  foreach ( array_keys($sports) as $sport );{
   $change = str_replace('^','<font color=green><b>W</b>&nbsp;</font>' ,$results[$sport][$p]);
   $final = str_replace('(FINAL)','<font color=red>(FINAL)', $change);
    echo "<td><font color=$fonts size=$fontc><b>$final</b></font></td><br>"; 
  }
  echo "</tr>";
}
//kill the table
echo "</table>";




and it works fantastically well however.... I'd only like to get certain data say like the Cowboys game info and nothing more... NOT too sure how to do this, I'm just not really sure how to read the page, grab only that data.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

I have this setup, but for some reason it displays the stats from user where it should display user1.

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<?php
$user = "S U  O  M I";
$user1 = "Tezz";

if(isset($_GET['user']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['user']))
{
$user = $_GET['user'];
}
}
if(isset($_GET['user1']))
{
if(!empty($_GET['user1']))
{
$user1 = $_GET['user1'];
}
}

//Skill Grabs
$order = array("Overall", 
                        "Attack", 
                        "Defence", 
                        "Strength", 
                        "Hitpoints", 
                        "Ranged", 
                        "Prayer", 
                        "Magic", 
                        "Cooking", 
                        "Woodcutting", 
                        "Fletching", 
                        "Fishing", 
                        "Firemaking", 
                        "Crafting", 
                        "Smithing", 
                        "Mining", 
                        "Herblore", 
                        "Agility", 
                        "Thieving", 
                        "Slayer", 
                        "Farming", 
                        "Runecraft", 
                        "Hunter", 
                        "Construction", 
                        "Summoning",
                        "Dungeoneering"); 

$get = file_get_contents("http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=$user");
$get = explode("\n", $get);
$i = 0;

foreach ($order as $key => $value)
{
        $value = strtolower($value);
        $temp = explode(",", $get[$i]);
        $temp = array("rank" => $temp[0], "level" => $temp[1], "exp" => $temp[2]);
        $stats[$value] = $temp;
        $eval = "\$$value = array(\$temp[\"rank\"], \$temp[\"level\"], \$temp[\"exp\"]);";
        eval($eval);
        $i++;
}

//End Skill Grabs

$order1 = array("Overall", 
                        "Attack", 
                        "Defence", 
                        "Strength", 
                        "Hitpoints", 
                        "Ranged", 
                        "Prayer", 
                        "Magic", 
                        "Cooking", 
                        "Woodcutting", 
                        "Fletching", 
                        "Fishing", 
                        "Firemaking", 
                        "Crafting", 
                        "Smithing", 
                        "Mining", 
                        "Herblore", 
                        "Agility", 
                        "Thieving", 
                        "Slayer", 
                        "Farming", 
                        "Runecraft", 
                        "Hunter", 
                        "Construction", 
                        "Summoning",
                        "Dungeoneering1"); 

$get1 = file_get_contents("http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=$user1");
$get1 = explode("\n", $get1);
$i1 = 0;

foreach ($order1 as $key1 => $value1)
{
        $value1 = strtolower($value1);
        $temp1 = explode(",", $get[$i1]);
        $temp1 = array("rank1" => $temp1[0], "level1" => $temp1[1], "exp1" => $temp1[2]);
        $stats1[$value1] = $temp1;
        $eval1 = "\$$value1 = array(\$temp1[\"rank1\"], \$temp1[\"level1\"], \$temp1[\"exp1\"]);";
        eval($eval1);
        $i1++;
}

//End Skill Grabs

echo "<h2>".$user."</h2>";

echo "<table border='1' cellpadding='5'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Skills</b></td>";
echo "<td><b>Rank</b></td>";
echo "<td><b>Level</b></td>";
echo "<td><b>XP</b></td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Overall</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$overall[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$overall[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$overall[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Attack</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$attack[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$attack[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$attack[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Defence</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$defence[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$defence[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$defence[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Strength</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$strength[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$strength[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$strength[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Constitution</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$hitpoints[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$hitpoints[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$hitpoints[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Ranged</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$ranged[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$ranged[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$ranged[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Prayer</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$prayer[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$prayer[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$prayer[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Magic</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$magic[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$magic[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$magic[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Cooking</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$cooking[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$cooking[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$cooking[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Woodcutting</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$woodcutting[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$woodcutting[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$woodcutting[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Fletching</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$fletching[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$fletching[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$fletching[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Fishing</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$fishing[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$fishing[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$fishing[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Firemaking</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$firemaking[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$firemaking[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$firemaking[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Crafting</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$crafting[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$crafting[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$crafting[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Smithing</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$smithing[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$smithing[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$smithing[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Mining</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$mining[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$mining[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$mining[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Herblore</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$herblore[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$herblore[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$herblore[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Agility</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$agility[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$agility[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$agility[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Thieving</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$thieving[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$thieving[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$thieving[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Slayer</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$slayer[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$slayer[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$slayer[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Farming</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$farming[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$farming[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$farming[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Runecrafting</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$runecraft[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$runecraft[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$runecraft[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Hunter</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$hunter[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$hunter[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$hunter[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Construction</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$construction[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$construction[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$construction[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Summoning</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$summoning[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$summoning[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$summoning[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Dungeoneering</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

echo "</table>";

echo "<h2>".$user1."</h2>";
echo "<table border=1 cellpadding=5>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>Dungeoneering</b></td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering1[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering1[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$dungeoneering1[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
What is wrong with this code?

Php Whizzes!

 

Need to grab geo ip.

Why these 2 show data differently ?

http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=19.117.63.253

http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip=19.117.63.253

Which one you like ? I like 1st one.

 

Anyway, is this code any good ? Will it misfire ?

	<?php
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12553160/getting-visitors-country-from-their-ip
function ip_info($ip = NULL, $purpose = "location", $deep_detect = TRUE) {
    $output = NULL;
    if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === FALSE) {
        $ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
        if ($deep_detect) {
            if (filter_var(@$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
                $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
            if (filter_var(@$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
                $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
        }
    }
    $purpose    = str_replace(array("name", "\n", "\t", " ", "-", "_"), NULL, strtolower(trim($purpose)));
    $support    = array("country", "countrycode", "state", "region", "city", "location", "address");
    $continents = array(
        "AF" => "Africa",
        "AN" => "Antarctica",
        "AS" => "Asia",
        "EU" => "Europe",
        "OC" => "Australia (Oceania)",
        "NA" => "North America",
        "SA" => "South America"
    );
    if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) && in_array($purpose, $support)) {
        $ipdat = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=" . $ip));
        if (@strlen(trim($ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode)) == 2) {
            switch ($purpose) {
                case "location":
                    $output = array(
                        "city"           => @$ipdat->geoplugin_city,
                        "state"          => @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName,
                        "country"        => @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryName,
                        "country_code"   => @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode,
                        "continent"      => @$continents[strtoupper($ipdat->geoplugin_continentCode)],
                        "continent_code" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_continentCode
                    );
                    break;
                case "address":
                    $address = array($ipdat->geoplugin_countryName);
                    if (@strlen($ipdat->geoplugin_regionName) >= 1)
                        $address[] = $ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
                    if (@strlen($ipdat->geoplugin_city) >= 1)
                        $address[] = $ipdat->geoplugin_city;
                    $output = implode(", ", array_reverse($address));
                    break;
                case "city":
                    $output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_city;
                    break;
                case "state":
                    $output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
                    break;
                case "region":
                    $output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
                    break;
                case "country":
                    $output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryName;
                    break;
                case "countrycode":
                    $output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode;
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
    return $output;
}
	echo ip_info("119.30.32.215", "Country"); ?><br><?php
echo ip_info("119.30.32.215", "Country Code"); ?><br><?php
echo ip_info("119.30.32.215", "State"); ?><br><?php
echo ip_info("119.30.32.215", "City"); ?><br><?php
echo ip_info("119.30.32.215", "Address"); ?><br><?php
	print_r(ip_info("119.30.32.215", "Location")); // Array ( [city] => Menlo Park [state] => California [country] => United States [country_code] => US [continent] => North America [continent_code] => NA )
	?>
	

 

What you say ?

Lemme see your sample code.

 

Thanks!

I think this belongs here, but my $_POST['gender'] won't grab the gender that was submitted through a form.

I am using AJAX so the page doesn't have to reload so it can go in a smooth transition, but the AJAX is grabbing the value perfectly fine.
I have a feeling the $_POST isn't grabbing the value because the page isn't reloading.. but I don't want to reload it.
These codes are all on the same page.

Here is my Javascript:
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<script>
function chooseGender()
{
var gender = $('input[name=gender]:checked', '#submitgender').val();
if(gender)
{
$.ajax(
{
type: "POST",
url: window.location.pathname,
data: gender,
success: function()
{
alert("You have chosen to be a " + gender); //It's grabbing it perfectly fine!
$("#submitgender").hide(); //It hides the gender table so they can't choose a gender since they already have chosen one.
$("#rest").fadeIn(); //Shows the other table that's labeled "rest" as it's ID so they can choose what base, eyes, etc for that specific gender they've chosen.
}
});
}
else
{
alert('Select a gender.');
}
}

$(function tabs()
{
$( "#tabs" ).tabs();
});
</script>
But here is the PHP inside the #rest table:
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<?php
$gender = $_POST['gender'];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM habases WHERE gender='".$gender."'";
$result = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql) or die(mysqli_error($cxn));
print_r($sql);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$baseimage = $row['image'];
$baseskin = $row['skin'];

echo "<img src=\"http://www.elvonica.com/".$baseimage."\" value=\"".$baseskin."\">";
}
?>
And this is what I'm getting for the print_r:
Quote

SELECT * FROM habases WHERE gender=''

Hey guys,

I am having issue with understanding/implementing an array.

Currently my code does the following it displays an array of values to the user as a note and allows the user to enter in values if they wish. This is done through using a select a statement which displays those values through a while loop.I then use a line like so:-<textarea name=Details[detailsno] value="'.$Text.'">"'.$Text.'"... which passes the input from the user into an array.

Underneath this I have a checkbox that allows the user to select particular notes to update.<input type=checkbox name=update[] value=Update>.

This passes over the values correctly.

The problem im currently having is grabbing the values that the user has entered for those particular detailsno so that I can implement an insert statement. i was wondering if you knew how to do this?
 
Thank you for taking your time to even read this or even help its much appreciated.

Hi guys, hopefully someone can help walk me through this. Basically I want to: 1) Send parameters to remote sites form 2) Receive information/failsafe 3) display data   Sounds easier than it is, can someone explain to a php newb how this can be done? Site will be given appropriate credit.

Hi,

Im trying to grab some data from a XML generated by an external server.
I know how to grab from XML without attributes, but I cant seem to wrap my head around the structure of this file.
What would be easiest way to get the value of  the "dbnr" field?

Part of the XML file:

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<data>
 <location>
   <field name="id" format="Long">xxxxxx</field>
   <field name="dbnr" format="Long">xxxxxx</field>
   <field name="jobnr" format="Long">xxxxxx</field>
   <field name="job_type" format="String" maxlen="50">xxxxxx</field>
   <field name="job_category" format="String" maxlen="50">xxxxxx</field>
 </location>
</data>

Hi guys really need some help.

i have got this function. I am learning codeignitor.

function uploadify()
{
$file = $this->input->post('filearray');
$data['json'] = json_decode($file);

print_r($data);

                $name = $json->{'file_name'};

                $this->files->add($name);
$this->load->view('uploadify',$data);
}

this is the result i get from the print_r().
Array ( [json] => stdClass Object ( [file_name] => footer-icpn229.jpg [real_name] => footer-icpn2.jpg [file_ext] => .jpg [file_size] => 1.75 [file_path] => /home/codeig/public_html/files/footer-icpn229.jpg [file_temp] => /home/codeig/tmp/phpSupCpi ) )

What i am trying to do is pull the value filename out off the array and pass it into another vairable in the fucntion which is what i am trying to do with these two lines of code.

$name = $json->{'file_name'};

$this->files->add($name);

I keep getting this error what am i doing wrong?

Undefined variable: json

Hello Guys,

I have a question

I have the following function that is located in a different file. I want to be able to use the $lat and $long in my main page how would I code it?

Code: [Select]
function toCoordinates($all_address)
{
    $bad = array(
        " " => "+",
        "," => "",
        "?" => "",
        "&" => "",
        "=" => ""
    );
    $all_address = str_replace(array_keys($bad), array_values($bad), $all_address);
    $data = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&q={$all_address}"));
    $coordinates = explode(",", $data->Response->Placemark->Point->coordinates);
    return array(
        "latitude" => $coordinates[0],
        "longitude" => $coordinates[1]
    );
}

Tried this but it didn't work

$all_address2 = toCoordinates($all_address);

echo "$all_address2;

Please advise...
Thanks, Dan

So I'm trying to grab values from a specific table id in html in PHP possibly using `DOMElement` or something else? I want to add my index.php page to a variable, search for a certain table id  ( in this case, "shades" ), then grab JUST the values from inside that table & print it out in an echo.

Here's what i have. for some reason I'm getting

    Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): htmlParseEntityRef: no name in Entity

<?php
    $HTML = [ ];
    $stream = fopen ( "index.php", "r" );
    $string = stream_get_contents ( $stream );
    HTML [ 0 ] = $string;
    // Our HTML goes here
    $innerHTML = implode ( ',', $HTML );
    // Create a new DOMDocument based on our HTML
    $document = new DOMDocument;
    $document -> loadHTML ( $innerHTML );
    // Get a NodeList of any table "id",  "shades"
    $cells = $document -> getElementsByTagName ( "id" );
    // Cycle over each <td>, adding its HTML to $innerHTML
    foreach ( $cells as $cell ) {
        $innerHTML = $document -> saveHTML ( $cell );
    }
    // Output our glorious HTML
    echo $innerHTML;
    fclose ( $stream );
?>

Any help is absolutely appreciated!
 

Edited May 28 by AquariaXI

I'm new to the PHP world and trying to work my way through a problem.  I've gone down many roads, but can't seem to find the answer.  I'm not even sure this is so much a PHP question at this point as a host configuration issue.

I'm trying to grab an XML file from a remote server.

My first try was to try to shell out a wget as follows:

  exec("wget -q -O status.xml - http://$username:$password@$hostname:$port/cgi-bin/status.xml",$xmlget,$err);

This didn't work.  Not a surprise since doing it directly from SSH gave:

  Connecting to mydomain.com|99.99.99.99|:8080... failed: Connection refused.

[Note that the port 8080 above is, I think, key]

I've since tried method using both file_get_contents and cURL.  Similar results for all.  I won't clutter this up with the code unless you ask.  It's all very straightforward.  [file_get_contents complains 'Connection refused' and curl_error says 'couldn't connect to host'].

With all of the methods, I'm able to grab, say, google.com AND a page from mydomain.com (default port 80), just not from port 8080.

I've set 'allow_url_fopen = on' in php.ini and in my code for good measure.

Also, the XML file that lives at 8080 is retrieved fine through a browser.

I'm hosted at GoDaddy on their "deluxe shared linux" plan.

Is there something obvious I'm missing that would allow all this to work over port 80, but not 8080?

Thanks is advance!

Greg

Hi Everyone,

I have seen on the web that you can purchase some server monitoring applications, which mainly run using PHP. Because I don't necesserally need something so powerful, I just want to monitor memory usage and cpu usage. Is there anyway that I can do this using PHP? I have SMNP enabled if that helps?

Thanks
Matt

Hello,
I'm new to this website so forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong section.
I just need to know if there is a way that I can retrieve php script that is stored in a database?

for example, in my database in table:
<? echo"Hello World"; ?>

and in my php file, I call that using:
<?
mysql_connect("asdas","asdas","asd");
   
mysql_select_db("asdasda");

$result = mysql_query("select * from somedatabse");

while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{   

   $table=$r["table"];
   
}

 echo"$table";
?>

i know its confusing, i just hope i made sense and that someone understands what im trying to do.

any help will be appreciatedddd
thank you : )

Let's say I have the string "Bob is my friend. Bob likes to eat apples. Goodbye!".

I give a function that string, and the two strings "Bob" and "apples". It returns "Bob likes to eat apples". I seem to have trouble making this function.
If I wanted it to return "Bob is my friend. Bob likes to eat apples" that would be much simpler, but I am trying to get the smallest amount of characters between the two strings.

I tried doing this, but seem to either get stuck on an infinite loop or return the entire inputted string.
Code: [Select]
function between($strIn, $str1, $str2){
$pos2 = stripos($strIn, $str2);
$pos = 1;
$strStore = "";
while($pos>0 && $pos<$pos2){
$pos = stripos($strIn, $str1);
$strStore = substr($strin, $pos, $pos2-$pos);
$strIn = substr_replace($srtIn, $strtemp, "");
}
return $strStore;
}

What it does it finds the first occurrence of "apples" ($str1) and then keeps finding and deleting every occurrence of "Bob" ($str2) until the position of "Bob" surpasses the position of "apples".

As you can tell, it doesn't work. Could anyone help me out, or tell me what I am doing wrong?