find content between 2 characters

[fsqueeen]

i had two variables called $phone and $url where

$phone = '600180320';

$url = "

http://www.abc.com?first3=

[phone:1-3]&mid3=[phone:4-6]&last3=[phone:7-9]";


first3=[phone:1-3] means that the first to third character in $phone will be assign to query string 'first3', and so forth for mid3 and last3.

Can anyone tell me how to get the 'phone', '1' and '3' in [phone:1-3]?

thanks!

 

[fsqueeen]

i mean i wil hav to replace all those string after '=' (e.g. [phone:1-3], [phone:7-9]) with correspond data (e.g. 600, 320) in the $url.

 

[Olavxxx]

Do you want a variable containing three variables?

first3=[phone:1-3]&mid3=[phone:4-6]&last3=[phone:7-9]";

echo "{$first3} {$mid3} {$last3}";

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[fsqueeen]

hello DaButcher,

$phone = '600180320';

$url = "

http://www.abc.com?first3=

[phone:1-3]&mid3=[phone:4-6]&last3=[phone:7-9]";

i need the $url becomes

$url = "

http://www.abc.com?first3=600&mid3=180&last3=320";

To make [phone:4-6] becomes '180', i hav to get the 4th to 6th digits from variable 'phone'.

I juz wonder how to make the system find out all these pattern [] in $url, and then take out the content between [], in this case is 'phone:4-6', and then get the 4-6 digits from variable 'phone'.

thanks...

 

[predamarcel]

hi,
you have to use substr() function

<?php

$phone = '600180320';
$url = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.abc.com?first3='.substr($phone,[/URL] 0, 3).
        '&mid3='.substr($phone, 3, 3).
        '&last3='.substr($phone, 6, 3);
echo $url;
?>

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[Olavxxx]

btw. why do you need the phone in the querystring?

What is it that you wish to accomplish?
Putting things in the querystring, leaves it open to the subject of manipulation.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[fsqueeen]

hello DaButcher...

thanks for the advise, i know it's unsafe to place things in querystring, but it's unavoidable in this system..

anyway, i had found the solution for this question. i using 'explode' to take out the variable $phone, and the digits as well. Everything goes well. thanks for the suggestion above!