Exploding

[timus]

Hi All

Just a quick question, I'm having difficulty taking a value from a text file

first,second,third

for examples works fine when i explode it from the file but when the file reads

Button one,link,status (there is a space between two words)

it only returns the first word

list($settingname, $value, $adminlevel) = explode(",",$line);

even though i'm not seperating the sections with a space in the explode command it returns "button", rather than "button one"

Any help would be very much appreciated

Tim

[laserlight]

I tried this script on Apache 2.0.52/PHP 4.3.9 in Windows XP:

<?php
$line = "Button one,link,status";
list($settingname, $value, $adminlevel) = explode(",",$line);
echo "\$settingname=" . $settingname;
?>

Didnt get the problem you described....

[dewen]

make sure $line has the right content before put into explode function. It works for me if

$line = "Button one, link, status";

[timus]

Sorry I've just tried that, and it works fine.

When i try to output the variable to a text box in a form only the first word appears

echo("<input type=text name=$line_num value=$settingname>");

Thanks

[laserlight]

Oh.
You're just suffering from the bad habit of not enclosing attribute values in HTML tags with quotes.

value=foo bar
would result in value taking on the value of 'foo', while
value="foo bar"
would result in it being 'foo bar'.
XHTML requires using the quotes anyway, so get used to it.

[timus]

Thanks for all the help

?>
    <input type=text name=$line_num value="<?php echo $settingname ?>">
    <?php

This works fine, is this the best way to do it? I've tried applying "" to the previous code string but it displays the variable name (as you might expect)

Thanks again
Tim

[laserlight]

You could use:

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"$line_num value=$settingname\">";

or

echo '<input type="text" name="' . $line_num value . '=' . $settingname . '">';

[timus]

Thanks for all the help, i should be ok now

Tim