Breaking up text/strings into Variables

[acidbox]

Parameters: First Name=John Last Name=Doe Date of Birth=10/1/1980

How would I tell php to read this string, and assign the following variables:

$first_name = "John";
$last_name = "Doe";
$dob = "10/1/1980";

I'm kinda new at this, so sorry if it is easy. 🙂

[veron]

There a probably near a hundred different ways to parse data out of a string, but I personally prefer to use sscanf whenever practical. So in this case, I would use:

$str = "First Name=John Last Name=Doe Date of Birth=10/1/1980";
list($first_name, $last_name, $dob) = sscanf($str,"First Name=%s Last Name=%s Date of Birth=%s");

[Anon]

I would start with taking out the spaces except for between variables, for example:

first name = john last name = jackson
first_name=john last_name=jackson

Then I would look at either the 'explode/implode' commands and/or 'ereg_replace' and see what you come up with. Hope that helps.