concatenate string

jroscoe

If I have a variable:

$q3val = $q3[$i];

and I have another variable:

$q3str = $q3val . "~";

I'm trying to take each value in the $q3 array and seperate it with a ~. How can I do this?

vryce

Here's how I did something similar in one of my php scripts.

$Variable= $Variable1. "," .$Variable2;

jroscoe

that would work if my variable wasn't an array. How do I do it with my array?

vryce

how about something like this?

$string = implode("~", $array);

That will take the entire array, seperate it by ~ or whatever you include in there and hold it in the string variable.

I'm just learning PHP as well, so I may not be able to help out like you need. I just found the implode function helped me out a lot in my script where I wanted to parse an array with comma seperated values.

jroscoe

but that then makes my q3str an array, and I need to split it out into sepearate values seperated by ~ to insert into a database row.

vryce

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php

for your example, I guess it would look like this.

$q3str = implode("~", $q3);

if $q3 is an array and contains the following example data
"test1,test2,test3,test4"

where
$q3[1]=test1
$q3[2]=test2
$q3[3]=test3
$q3[4]=test4

then $q3str would look like this "test1~test2~test3~test4"
you could then parse through the string pulling out the values and then code to insert them into the database.

jroscoe

you forgot implode

$q3str = implode("~", $q3);