passing variables to a script

[irishgirl2004]

i have a number of items being posted to a php script, they are a number followed by a letter. the number represents a database id, and the letter represents an graphic to be displayed, eg, 4e, 5p, 444e,2000p.

I want to select the records from a database on the id, so for the above sample data i want to select all records from a table with id's 4,5,444,2000. when displaying these records i want to display the appropiate graphic beside them, either e or p. So, for record with id 4 i want to display e.jpg, for record 5 i want to display p.jpg. is this possible?

[chasiv]

wouldn't it be easier to pass them as an array rather then combined into 1 string value?

The only way I can think of would be to iterate through the string and parse the 2 sections into variables.

[Weedpacket]

If you don't have any choice about the format of the data you're getting, [man]strspn[/man] will go a long way here to breaking it into something more useful.

[NogDog]

I'd probably do a preg sort of thing ('cause that's the kinda guy I am 😉 ):

$var = '1234e';
if(preg_match('/(\d+)([a-z]+)/i', $var, $matches))
{
   $id = $matches[1];
   $graphic = $matches[2];
}
else
{
   // not found error
}