parsing string to build array of strings

xenzat

Hello,
I am trying to get some basic php going on two pages. The first page is capturing a few of names and placing it in a string named: agentname. All the names are separated with a control character of "/".

When I print the variable's content in the next page, I see the names that I want to put in my DB. In the next bit of code, I am attempting to go through the string and find all of the "/", take the name and place it in an array. All the while, I keep a counter running so I know the number of names.

Here is the code that I started with but have been having trouble
myNames -> all of the names to parse
tempName -> to move the name
totAgent -> total agent count
$allNames[] -> array of names (strings)

for (i=0;i<$myNames.len;i++) {
if ($myNames = "/") {
if ($tempName <> '') {
$allNames[$totAgent]=$tempName;
alert($tempName);
$tempName='';
$totAgent++;
}
} else {
$tempName=$tempName+$myNames;
}
}

Page is not posting - instead I get a parse error
PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant len - assumed 'len'
need help - thank you

Weedpacket

$myNames doesn't have a property called "len". And even if it did, it wouldn't be "$myNames.len".

xenzat

What would you recommended in order to get the length of the string?

Weedpacket

I'd recommend looking for it in the manual. Shouldn't be too hard to find (it's probably a function in the [man]strings[/man] section).

NogDog

I think you could save yourself a bit of coding by using the explode() function.

$allNames = explode('/', $myNames);