String Opertaor

snorcha

Hi All 🙂

Quick question, I come from a cf background and was wondering if there is a similar function in PHP to do a check if a string variable contains a specified string.

eg.
CFCODE
<CFIF "#thevar#" CONTAINS "WASSUP">SUP ALL</cfif>

Is there a similar operator in PHP to do the same thing?

Cheers
Snorcha🆒

br__ken

<?=(stristr($thevar,"whatsup")?"Sup All":"not in string"); ?>

format: stristr("haystack","needle")

link: http://php.net/stristr

snorcha

cheers br0ken 🙂

br__ken

you recognize conditional If statements right? i no nothing about cf

snorcha

umm kinda.. as i come from cf I am using the format as follows..

if($dude=='wow')
{
do wotever
}
else
{
nah man
}

I kinda understand what you wrote before in your if statement.. i'll pull it apart and u can tell me if im way off track;

is the <?= the same as writing if()?

?"Sup All" - if does contain the string write "sup all"

:"not in string"); - if not write "not in string"
?>

is that right? if so how come u dont have to do an echo or print to output the text?

Thanks
sn0rcha

br__ken

its basically:

if(stristr($thevar,"whatsup")
{
echo "sup all!";
}
else
{
echo "";
}

condensed onto one line.. conditional if's rock 🙂 its setup like
(condition)?truepath:falsepath;

the <?=$var?> is shorthand for <?php echo $var?>
and <? is shorthand for <?php

snorcha

ahh sweet thanks br0ken..

you have saved me many un-neccessary lines of code 🙂

U DA MAN 🙂

br__ken

nah, im just lazy :p

snorcha

no no no no... thats not how you put it...

nah, i'm just "efficient" (lazy :p))

is how it should read... much cooler ehe 🙂

snorcha

br__ken

looks better on a resume i s'pose 🙂

snorcha

Hey Br0ken,
Gotta another easy question for ya 🙂

Just wondering if there is an easy way of reversing/formating a date for insert into a mysql datetime field in mysql.

The form i have accepts the date in the format of dd/mm/yyyy - when i insert into mysql in doesnt insert correctly. In cf you can create an "odbcdatetime" which u can then insert into mysql no probs. Is there a similar function in php or what do I need to do?

Cheers
sn0rcha

cahva

Theres lots of ways of doing that, this is probaply the most stupid 🙂

$date=explode("/",$yourdate,$date);

Now you got your date in pieces like this:
$date[0] is the day
$date[1] is the month
$date[2] is the year

Now we'll just put them together, so that it fits to mysql.

$date2="$date[2]-$date[1]-$date[0]";

So now its in correct format to insert to mysql.(yyyy-mm-dd)

Theres a better way of doing this but I have forgotten.. 🙁
I think you could do the translation straight from mysql using DATEFORMAT, but as I said I dont remember just now.