help with exploding/imploding

cruz610

Ok, here is the basic idea of what I want to do...I am going to have information passed via a URL in this type of format:

blah.php?i=[Name/Category][MONTHDAY/TIME][TITLE]

I need to explode i so that I can get the different variables Name, Category, MONTHDAY[onevar but would be nice to split it into 2], TIME, TITLE

How can I go about doing this?
Thanks 🙂

AstroTeg

What do you want to explode on? Once you answer that, it should be easy to do this...

cruz610

What do you mean what do I want to explode on? I want to explode the GET variable i into the different subsections noted

LordShryku

You have to have some sort of delimeter to explode on. Like

$test ="a,b,c,d,e";
$exp = explode(",",$test); // exploding on the comma

KevinMG

wouldn't it just be easier to pass the different values as different variables in the address?

i.e. address.php?name=value&time=value&title=another_value

cruz610

Originally posted by KevinMG
wouldn't it just be easier to pass the different values as different variables in the address?

i.e. address.php?name=value&time=value&title=another_value

Yes it would be easier unfortunately thats not how it works 🙁

LordShryku: Well that was part of the problem. I think I finally found a way i can do it though, please check this out:

$r = $_GET['r'];
$release = str_replace("]","",$r);
$pieces = explode("[", $release);

$groupcat = $pieces[0];
$datetime = $pieces[1];
$title = $pieces[2];

//explode groupcat for group and category variables
$groupcatex = explode("/",$pieces[0]);
$group = $groupcatex[0];
$cat = $groupcatex[1];

//explode datetime for date and time variables
$datetimeex = explode("/",$pieces[1]);
$date = $datetimeex[0];
$time = $datetimeex[1];

AstroTeg

Just hope there's no extra ']' in there (from the data/user's input) or it will throw off your explode function.

cruz610

Yea, guess I'll have to take that chance, although there is almost no chance that would happen 🙂