using explode ?

[pedroz]

I have the following string
$CLC_string = "london,en-gb,united kingdom;manchester,en-gb,united kingdom;madrid,es,spain";

if ($city="london") Then {$language="en-gb"; $country="united kingdom";}
if ($city="manchester") Then {$language="en-gb"; $country="united kingdom";}
if ($city="madrid") Then {$language="es"; $country="spain";}

What is the fastest way to get the $language and $country strings from $CLC_string?

Thanks 😉

[bpat1434]

Well, you could first explode against the ";", and then again against the "," inside each of those. So something like:

$CLC_string = "london,en-gb,united kingdom;manchester,en-gb,united kingdom;madrid,es,spain";

$first = explode(';', $CLC);

$cities = array();

foreach($first as $sec)
{
    $info = explode(',', $sec);

$cities[$info[0]] = array('language'=>$info[1], 'country'=>$info[2]);
}

Now you can use the $cities array to get whatever information you want by just using the city name as the array key, so to get the language, you'd say:

$lang = $cities['london']['language'];
$country = $cities['london']['country'];

This allows you to be flexible, and add more cities as you need.