PHP - Grabbing An Array From A Function

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:
Code: [Select]
<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=''

Currently I am using this very popular code to get all the football scores:
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$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 am trying to have a search bar and this is the search results page. However when they search they have the option to type in anything and it will search the entire directory for what ever they type in so if they type in "Dog" I want dog to be searched for in the database under title and author this is the code I have now...can anyone help me??

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// Build SQL Query 
$query = "select * from videos where title like \"%$trimmed%\" 
  order by id DESC"; // EDIT HERE and specify your table and field names for the SQL query

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 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?

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

Hi guys. I'm very new to PHP, and I'm trying to create a simple mail script.

Mail a friend
A user will click an image on the site which will open a pop up box. They input their name and the email of the friend that they want to send the current URL to. The email will send the current URL via email and display a confirmation message once it has sent successfully.
The friend will receive an email with a link to the URL.

The problem
The email part works fine, it's the URL in the message that is the issue. When the user clicks the 'Email a friend' it opens a popup box - which is where the URL is being grabbed from and emailed.
Is there a way to grab the URL from the page before the popup?

Here is my (rather amateur) code. Also, feel free to let me know if I can make improvements to it if anything seems a bit strange!

The popup link:
<a onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','width=400,height=350,menubar=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;" title="E-mail" href="mailform/form.html">Send to a friend</a>

The popup form:

<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="code.php">
    Friends Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
    Your Name: <input name="name" type="text" /><br />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>


The PHP code:

<?php
// Declaring Variables
    $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
    $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
    $geturl = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $message = "Hello. $name has suggested a page for you to view on our website. Please click the following link: $geturl";

// Email Settings
    mail( $email, "Send page to a friend",
        $message, "From: Timaru District Council" );
    header( "Location: http://www.c4clever.com/sandbox/mailform/sent.html" ); // Confirmation page (Change this to appropriate URL)
?>

Feel free to test it out if you want to (http://www.c4clever.com/sandbox)


Looking forward to replies, thanks in advance!

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.

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 : )

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,

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:

Code: [Select]
<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>

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

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

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?