String question(s)

Hi,

On a project I'm migrating from Classic ASP to PHP and I have a few questions about how strings work in PHP.

I'm trying to parse this text to pull out variables:

I want to pull out these string values from this text:

Admin
last (2)
type (x AND y)

So my code might look like this:

$query = "Admin";
$last = 2;
$type = "x AND y";

Basically I want to test for the first value (to determine what query to run) and use the other values to build the query.

Thanks for any help/ideas. I just spent an hour reading about strings on PHP.net but can't make heads or tails about how to do this in PHP.

Tim

Personally, I'd use preg_match to do this. If you post your original asp code I or someone else could probably give you a more direct translation.