string problem

raymie7

Hi,
I've got some code that produces a forename followed by a surname, with a space in between (as you'd expect). However, I want to remove the space so I can put the names into into a URL, so for example, Ray Watt becomes RayWatt.

$string = "((strlen($lp[0]['e_name']))?$lp[0]['e_name']:'...')"; 



$somestring = substr_replace ($string,' ',''); 
Hi,
I have some code that produces a forename and surname, with a space in between (as you'd expect). I'd like to remove the space so that I can put the persons name straight into a URL eg. Ray Watt becomes RayWatt. This is what I have so far:

[code=php]
$string = "((strlen($lp[0]['e_name']))?$lp[0]['e_name']:'...')"; 

$somestring = substr_replace ($string,' ','');

<h3><a href="http://www.ownwebsite.com/

 echo $somestring;

/">testing</a></h3>

The code does show the persons name in the hyperlink. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks

laserlight

Why dont you [man]rawurlencode/man or [man]urlencode/man the URI?

Installer

string substr_replace ( string string, string replacement, int start [, int length])

substr_replace() replaces a copy of string delimited by the start and (optionally)
length parameters with the string given in replacement. The result is returned.

Use "str_replace() instead of "substr_replace":

$lp[0]['e_name'] = 'Ray Watt';
echo '$lp[0][e_name]: ' . $lp[0]['e_name'] . '<br />';
$string = strlen($lp[0]['e_name'])?$lp[0]['e_name']:'...';  

echo '$string: ' . $string . '<br />';
$somestring = str_replace (' ', '', $string);
echo '$somestring: ' . $somestring;

raymie7

Thanks for the feedback.

Is it possible to use substr() with a character (eg. a colon) as oppose to an integer. For example, I have a series of names and titles-

John Roberts: Over the hill
Dave Bell: Tomorrow
Jonathon Mullon: Real Test

I have each of these rows in a variable, $item['product_name'] but I don't want to display the text after the colon. As you can see, the position of the colon varies so what can I do to display only the text before the colon?

Thanks

Installer

You can do that with "explode()".

raymie7

If $product['name'] contains 'John Roberts: Over the hill' am I right in saying the following code will return 'John Roberts:'?

$title = $product['name'];
$composer = explode(":",$title);
echo $composer[0];