[Resolved] Explode

[chuckury]

I have a form when you submit it it goes to the database then I pull it out of the database. But one field in the form I want to be able to use [bold]putbold text here[/bold] and stuff like that so how do I explode the string and get whats inbetween those out. And how do I know how many of them there are🙁 I hope that made sense.
Sort of like te forums how you can use those tags to get bold text and it shows bold.
Thanks.
Chuckury

[tekky]

eh, you cant use explode to work EASILY with non conforming seperators... such as BOLDsometext/BOLD

the smart way to do it would just be to designate ONE character or PHRASE to seperate EACH bold section you want.... then do something like...

//in my example my seperating character is as /
$arrbold = explode("/",$string); //return array of each element to bold
$numbold = count($arrbold); //total number of returned elements
echo "You have $numbold total lines that should be bold.<br>";
foreach($arrbold as $bold) //loop through each element and output it
{
  echo "<bold>$bold</bold><br>";
}

something like that...

[chuckury]

Thanks but,
I still have more text that goes around it. So the way your doing it is it would turn out like this:

bold item
bold item
all the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the textall the text

But I need it to be part of the text like it was before it was exploded.

Thanks
Chuckury

[tekky]

then the option you have is ereg_replace type stuff.... which unfortunately I still havent mastered 😉

[chuckury]

I used this ereg_replace code

   //replace quote codes
  $quotsym = " ";
  $cosym = "-";
  $cosym1 = "<br>";
  $quotes = ereg_replace('[qu]', $quotsym, $quotes);
  $quotes = ereg_replace('[/qu]', $quotsym, $quotes); 
  $quotes = ereg_replace('[co]', $cosym, $quotes);
  $quotes = ereg_replace('[/co]', $cosym1, $quotes);

  //Replace feature codes
  $feat1 = "-";
  $feat = "<br>";
  $features = ereg_replace('[i]', $feat1, $features);
  $features = ereg_replace('[/i]', $feat, $features);

and got this

Quotes:
[ ]y- m-mma is h-t[ ][--]in leather[ --] [ ]as is y- rs[ ][--] Nah![ --]

Features:
[-]see[
-][-]you[
-]

Ignore what I tested it with lol.
Plaese help
its supposed to look like this:

Quotes:
"yo momma is hot"-in leather
"as is yours"- Nah!

Features:
-see
-you

Thanks,
Chuckury

[weekender]

$string = "I want [b]this text to be bold[/b]";
$number = substr_count($string, "[b]"); 
$string = str_replace("[b]", "<B>", $string);
$string = str_replace("[/b]", "</B>", $string);
echo $string;
//outputs "I want <B>this text to be bold</B>"
echo $number . " bold elements in string";
//outputs "1 bold elements in string"

hope this helps

adam

[chuckury]

Awsome!
😃
Thanks weekender and Tekky for your quick replies and help!

[weekender]

no probs - just realised, where i wanted to put the square brackets bold tag in my text, the forum interpreted it!

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