PHP String Thing

[Trevor]

Say I've got this:

<?php

$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
$name1
$name2
$name3

?>

How do I make the $name1 equal to the first name in the list of
strings, $name2 the second and so on?

Thank You,
Trevor

[Duyet The Vo]

$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";

list ($name1,$name2,$name3) = split ( ",", $string );

"Trevor" <tr*********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Say I've got this:

<?php

$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
$name1
$name2
$name3

?>

How do I make the $name1 equal to the first name in the list of
strings, $name2 the second and so on?

Thank You,
Trevor

[Dave Patton]

"Trevor" <tr*********@gmail.com> wrote in
news:11**********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com:

Say I've got this:

<?php

$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
$name1
$name2
$name3

?>
OK, we'll say that you have a PHP script that has one line
of code followed by three lines with parse errros ;-)
How do I make the $name1 equal to the first name in the list of
strings, $name2 the second and so on?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

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[dourdoun]

Simple Answer:

<?php
$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
list($name1, $name2, $name3) = explode(",", $string);
?>

Complicated, for any number of varibles:

<?php
$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
$names = explode(",", $string);

for($i = 0; $i < count($names); $i++)
{
eval('$name'.($i+1).' = "'.$names[$i].'";');
}

print $name1; // Prints 'Bill'
print $name2; // Prints 'Martin'
print $name3; // Prints 'Joe'
?>

hope it helps,

Vasilis

"Trevor" <tr*********@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<11**********************@l41g2000cwc.googleg roups.com>...

Say I've got this:

<?php

$string = "Bill,Martin,Joe";
$name1
$name2
$name3

?>

How do I make the $name1 equal to the first name in the list of
strings, $name2 the second and so on?

Thank You,
Trevor

[Janwillem Borleffs]

dourdoun wrote:

for($i = 0; $i < count($names); $i++)
{
eval('$name'.($i+1).' = "'.$names[$i].'";');
}

You don't need eval for this:

for ($i = 0; $i < count($names); $i++) {
${'name'.($i+1)} = $names[$i];
}
JW

[Trevor]

Thank you very much, that's what I needed.

Trevor