Wanting to make VIN Decoder PHP script. Need help.

camarosource

Hello.

I am wanting to make a VIN Decoder PHP script for my site. This would consist of a single html form that would ask for the VIN number of a Camaro. The script would then need to look at each character of the vin (including verifying it's a certain number of characters) and depending on what characters were typed, would print the results of each in a seperate page.

IE. If I person typed the following as their VIN number : 1G1FP2385NL555555

The script would look verify a certain number of chars were typed (ie. 17), and then would read each character starting with "1". 1 would represent a certain result, then "G" which too would result into a certain result, then "1" again... and continue to the end of the VIN number.

What PHP commands would I be using to do the above? And what PHP commands can verify the number of charecters entered in a form field and be able to read each and distinguish charecters typed in a single form field?

Thanks.

Pests

$var = "0123456789abcdefg";
if(strlen($var) == 17)
{
        // $var has 17 characters
        for($i = 0; $i > 17; $i++) //0 to 16
        {
                 //The chars start with 0
                 echo $var{$i} //the $i'th character of $var
        }

} else {
        die("Needs to be 17 chars long!");
}

camarosource

Originally posted by Pests


<?

$var = "0123456789abcdefg";
if(strlen($var) == 17)
{
        // $var has 17 characters
        for($i = 0; $i > 17; $i++) //0 to 16
        {
                 //The chars start with 0
                 echo $var{$i} //the $i'th character of $var
        }

} else {
        die("Needs to be 17 chars long!");
}

?>

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I get an error with this script: Parse error: parse error, expecting ','' or';'' in /home/camaro92/public_html/php/vin_decoder/decode_vin.php on line 11

Pests

If you would have taken the time to look at line 10 and 11 you would have found the error:

<? 

$var = "0123456789abcdefg"; 
if(strlen($var) == 17) 
{ 
        // $var has 17 characters 
        for($i = 0; $i > 17; $i++) //0 to 16 
        { 
                 //The chars start with 0 
                 echo $var{$i}; //the $i'th character of $var 
                            //^ Forgot that thing
        } 

} else { 
        die("Needs to be 17 chars long!"); 
} 

?>

camarosource

Yep, I discovered that just after I replied.