Variables returned

[bezuic]

I connect to a URL that only return 8 variable in text format. It looks like this.

299,285,310,0,0,0,0,15:20:03

If i would like to display some of these variables in my page how would I go about coding it. I need for now only the first and last three.

These values change with everytime you connect to that URL. It is Stock updates etc.

Please help

[JDcrack]

Hmmm....
I am not sure I totally understand te question,
Maybe what you want to do is put all of the numbers into an array?

Assumming $var ="299,285,310,0,0,0,0,15:20:03"
$nums= array($var); 

Now that you've got your numbers into an array, you can do whatever you want to it:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php

[rinjani]

split() on "," might be a guess

[the_Igel]

$array = split($returned_string);

then $array[0] etc are what you need.

[gardenhost]

$quote = "299,285,310,0,0,0,0,15:20:03";
$quote1 = substr($quote, 0,2); // returns 299

$qary = explode("," , $quote);
//returns an array like this: ["299","285","310","0","0","0","0","15:20:03"];

$quote1 = $qary[1]; // returns: "299";
$qouteLast = $qary[ sizeof($qary)-1 ]; // return: "15:20:03"

//to further break down last three:

$arynew = explode(":",$quoteLast); // returns: ["15","20","03"];