PHP - How Break A String Into Sections

This is probably a simple one. I just couldn't find a tutorial to the specific thing I'm trying.

I have a string that looks like: "(abbreviated name with.) second abbrev. name."

I'm trying to find a way to break this apart so I can have:

$var1 = "abbreviated name with."
$var2 = "second abbrev. name."

I've looked at substr and a couple others and I'm not sure quite how to do this, because the ')' could be in a differing location.

I have an array, and to make it easy let's say they have 2 values: ET and SPEED
Here is an example chart of the array printed out:

KEY        ET          SPEED
8           5.2          60
3           5.3          60
1           5.4          70
7           5.4          60
9           5.4          90
6           5.5          60
5           5.6          60
2           5.6          65
4           5.7          60

I need to take this array and each group that has a matching ET, put them in order based on SPEED. The corrected chart should be like this:

KEY        ET          SPEED
8           5.2          60
3           5.3          60
9           5.4          90
1           5.4          70
7           5.4          60
6           5.5          60
2           5.6          65
5           5.6          60
4           5.7          60

Just not sure of how to only arrange the section that need to be. Keys stay the same, just the order changes.

This should be an easy one but I'm looking for a bit of help.

I'm using a php framework and using includes to bring different pieces of a website togethor onto the page.
The top of the page uses a flash banner, then there are some simple text sections below.

The banner is in it's own php file as well.

Wondering if it's possible to have the banner NOT replay after each page load? I'm not sure if this is something I need to setup in the flash file, or if there is a way to do it in the php files?

Basically, the banner is the same for all of the pages, and I want it (once loaded) to stay on the page while the details on the bottom change, WITHOUT going through the entire animation again. Make sense?

here's the page as it stands now so you can get a better idea what I'm trying to do.

http://www.getmoreimpact.com/index.php

again not sure if this needs to be done in the flash side, or the php? Any ideas are better than what I've got!

Thanks in advance

I need help arranging a text blob into a table of where each cell is a letter, and the contents of the text blob must be arranged in the table according to what letter it starts with.

This is the query I used:
$gibs33 = mysql_query("SELECT name,anime_id,sort FROM anime WHERE popular='1' ORDER BY name ASC"); 
while ($gib33 = mysql_fetch_assoc($gibs33)) {
        echo '<a href="http://www.website.com/index.php?anime_id='.$gib33['anime_id'].'">'.$gib33['name'].'</a> | ';
        }

The text blob looks like this:

Quote

<a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=132">Appleseed (2004)</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=133">Appleseed: Ex Machina</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=219">Black Rock Shooter</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=2">Bleach</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=191">Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=192">Bleach: Fade to Black</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=190">Bleach: Memories of Nobody</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=175">Brave Story</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=207">Canaan</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=24">Clannad</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=26">Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion</a> | <a href="http://www.narutosoul.com/index.php?categoryid=2&amp;task=series&amp;anime_id=206">Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2</a> |


I want to arrange this blob into a table like this:

#-9 A B C D E .Hack AppleSeed Bleach
Blood+
Basilisk Claymore D Gray Man Eureka 7
Elfen Lied F G H I J K Fairy Tail Gundam Seed K-ON Season 2

etc....


In the Query,
anime_id = number example: (189)
sort        =  First letter of the word, example (N)
name      = Name of the anime, example (Bleach)

Hi,

I am working on a project, where i want to add sub-sections within a section , and add once again adding sub-subsection under that section.

How to make a table structure for that, any idea please

Thanks,

I'm trying to organize MySQL output in an HTML table based on individual states. Here is how the static HTML is currently displayed: http://www.u-s-s-a.org/breeders.html. Here is my working document: http://www.u-s-s-a.org/breeders.php. As you can see on the HTML page, each db row is organized into individual states. I'm only concerned about the US states, and not the countries outside of the US.

Following is the code I've been working on (directoryoutput.php):

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<?php
require '/home/srob/public_html/u-s-s-a.org/config.php';

$connect = mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Cannot connect: '.mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname);

$query = "SELECT * FROM directory ORDER BY flockname";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ('Error, query failed.');

echo "<tr><td width='33%' class='style9'><p align='left' class='style12'><a name='AR'></a>Arkansas</p></td><td width='34%'>&nbsp;</td><td width='33%' valign='top'><div  align='right'><a href='#TOP'><img src='returnTOTOPGRAPHIC/RETURNTOTOP.gif' width='113' height='21' border='0' align='absmiddle'></a></div></td></tr>";

$cnt = 0;

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)){
if ($cnt == 0){
echo "<tr><td valign='top' class='style9'><p align='center'><span class='style10'><strong>";
if($row['flockname']){ echo $row['flockname']; }
echo "</strong></span><strong></br>";
if($row['firstname']){ echo $row['firstname']." ".$row['lastname']."</br>"; }
if($row['address1']){ echo $row['address1']."</br>"; }
if($row['address2']){ echo $row['address2']."</br>"; }
if($row['city']){ echo $row['city'].", ".$row['state']." ".$row['zip']."</br>"; }
if($row['email1']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email1']."'>".$row['email1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['email2']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email2']."'>".$row['email2']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website1']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website1']."'>".$row['website1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website2']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website2']."'>".$row['website2']."</a></br>"; }
echo "</br></p></td>";
$cnt++;
} elseif ($cnt == 1){
echo "<td valign='top' class='style9'><p align='center'><span class='style10'><strong>";
if($row['flockname']){ echo $row['flockname']; }
echo "</strong></span><strong></br>";
if($row['firstname']){ echo $row['firstname']." ".$row['lastname']."</br>"; }
if($row['address1']){ echo $row['address1']."</br>"; }
if($row['address2']){ echo $row['address2']."</br>"; }
if($row['city']){ echo $row['city'].", ".$row['state']." ".$row['zip']."</br>"; }
if($row['email1']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email1']."'>".$row['email1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['email2']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email2']."'>".$row['email2']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website1']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website1']."'>".$row['website1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website2']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website2']."'>".$row['website2']."</a></br>"; }
echo "</br></p></td>";
$cnt++;
} elseif ($cnt == 2){
echo "<td valign='top' class='style9'><p align='center'><span class='style10'><strong>";
if($row['flockname']){ echo $row['flockname']; }
echo "</strong></span><strong></br>";
if($row['firstname']){ echo $row['firstname']." ".$row['lastname']."</br>"; }
if($row['address1']){ echo $row['address1']."</br>"; }
if($row['address2']){ echo $row['address2']."</br>"; }
if($row['city']){ echo $row['city'].", ".$row['state']." ".$row['zip']."</br>"; }
if($row['email1']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email1']."'>".$row['email1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['email2']){ echo "<a href='mailto:".$row['email2']."'>".$row['email2']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website1']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website1']."'>".$row['website1']."</a></br>"; }
if($row['website2']){ echo "<a target='_blank' href='http://".$row['website2']."'>".$row['website2']."</a></br>"; }
echo "</br></p></td></tr>";
$cnt = $cnt - 2;
}
}

mysql_close($connect);

?>
I'd appreciate any help on this code, including a more efficient way to parse out the MySQL db rows into 3 columns in the HTML table.

Thanks in advance!

Ryan

The snippet repository section has been read only and nothing new for a long time. Most of the ones there are pretty old.   The tutorials sections last post was from 2010 The old pagination tutorial needs a good mysqli and pdo version there. http://www.phpfreaks...asic-pagination   I noticed how slow the sites been a while now, maybe need something to lure more in.  

Hi,

I am trying to make some adjustments to uploadify.php which comes with the latest version of uploadify (3.0 beta), so that it works with a session variable that stores the login username and adds it to the path for uploads.  Here is uploadify.php as it currently looks:

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<?php
session_name("MyLogin");
session_start();

$targetFolder = '/songs/' . $_SESSION['name']; // Relative to the root

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
$tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $targetFolder;
$targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') .'/'. $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('m4a','mp3','flac','ogg'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);
echo '1';
} else {
echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
}

echo $targetFolder;

?>
I added Code: [Select]
echo $targetFolder; at the bottom so that I could make sure that the string returned was correct, and it is, i.e. '/songs/nick'.  For some reason though, uploads are not going to the correct folder, i.e. the username folder, but instead are going to the parent folder 'songs'.  The folder for username exists, with correct permissions, and when I manually enter Code: [Select]
$targetFolder = '/songs/nick';all works fine.  Which strikes me as rather strange.  I have limited experience of using php, but wonder how if the correct string is returned by the session variable, the upload works differently than with the manually entered string.

Any help would be much appreciated.  It's the last issue with a website that was due to go live 2 days ago!

Thanks,

Nick

This topic has been moved to PHP Regex.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=326004.0

Hello all,

I'm trying to change the end of a javascript call based on the end of the url string. The common part of all the url strings is sobi2Id=, I'm trying to do this with strstr but am having no luck. I'm new to php so my syntax knowledge is terrible!

at the moment i've got

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<?php

       $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

     $tag = strstr ($url, 'sobi2Id=');

       echo $tag; 
?>
but this returns an unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

Can anyone debug this? I may well be being really silly!

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read my thread. My issue is that I can't think of a way to edit a XML file using PHP's XML functionality and then assign the edited contents to a string instead of saving the file. Because my issue is that I have to edit the XML file based upon a string brought from a remote location then give it back to that remote location using a string again, to be exact I am doing it via Linux command line utilizing SSH2.

This is what I managed to complete on my own.


function CheckIVMPConfig($ServerID)
{
global $Panel;

if(is_numeric($ServerID) && $this->IsValidServer($ServerID))
{
// We select the game server that the FTP account was created for.
$Servers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_servers WHERE server_id = '".mysql_real_escape_string($FTPAccount['ftp_server'])."'");
$Server = mysql_fetch_array($Servers);

// Here we select the Box ID that the game server is on.
$Boxs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_machines WHERE machine_id = '".$Server['server_machine']."'");
$Box = mysql_fetch_array($Boxs);

// Now we select the required package for the box.
$Packages = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_packages WHERE package_id = '".$Server['server_package']."'");
$Package = mysql_fetch_array($Packages);

// Retrive the file.
$Config = $CProtocol->exec("cat /home/{$Server['server_id']}/{$Package['package_config']}");

$Parse = SimpleXMLElement($Config);

foreach($Parse as $Entry) // loop through our books
{
if($Entry->port != $Server['server_port'])
{
// edit the value
}
else if($Entry->maxplayers > $Server['server_slots'])
{
// edit the value
}
}
}
}

hey guys im trying to find a string inside a string which could be made up of different things eg...

{$test}, {$test1}, {$test2}   
etc (but the varable inside could be called anything hence maybe using regex im not sure?)
is this possible?...i hope you guys understand....thanks

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!

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$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM ".$table."");
$i = 0;
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$csv_output .= $row['Field'].",";
$i++;
}
}
$csv_output .= "\n";

$values = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$table."");
while ($rowr = mysql_fetch_row($values)) {
for ($j=0;$j<$i;$j++) {
$csv_output .= $rowr[$j].", ";
}
$csv_output .= "\n";
}

print $csv_output;
I'm using the above to get a csv output in my browser, but it appears as a string of text
eg
a1,a2,a3,a4,b1,b2,b3,b4,...

I'd like it to appear as
a1,a2,a3,a4
b1,b2,b3,b4
c1,c2,c3,c4

Any ideas how?