[Resolved] explode question

[rayzun]

With this code snippet:

list($first, $last) = explode('/', substr($PATH_INFO,1));

echo "$first";
echo "$last";

this will grab the first and second content after the index file..

basically:

domain.com/index.php/the/web

$first = the
$last = web

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With that said, how would I strip the url for more slashes

example:

domain.com/index.php/the/web/I/internet/

$first = the
$last = web
$? = I
$? = internet

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Basically Im trying to figure how to make a website that can cross-reference a database using the url. I was trying to mimick Automart.com

automart.com/browse-cars/h/honda/all/1900-1989/1-10000/mid-west/

[trex005]

well, sounds like what you are really trying to do is rewrite URLs, with apache, it is called a RewriteEngine. though to answer your question directly, you want to not explode to a list, but a variable (if you can call it that). explode returns an array...

$path_vars = explode('/', substr($PATH_INFO,1));
for($i=0;$i<count($path_vars);$i++)
{
     echo "I found " , $path_vars[$i] , " as variable $i";
}

[rayzun]

well thanks for the reply.
I have tried to use your code snippet, however, just returning all fields one after the other until finished is not much use to me.

The idea was to be able to take parts of the URL and use/place them where needed.

In a MySQL statement or within a PHP code..

$query = "SELECT *
FROM top10
WHERE 1 AND Product_Name
LIKE '$second-last' LIMIT 1";

echo "$first<br>";
echo "$last<br>";
echo "$second-last<br>";
echo "$second<br>";

[tekky]

list($first, $last, $again, $yet_again) = explode('/', substr($PATH_INFO,1));

echo $first;
echo $last;
echo $again;
echo $yet_again;

just add more list variables, but im not sure if this will error if you dont have that many array keys from the explode....

[rayzun]

thanks, seems to work just fine. So far no errors with missing array keys.