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I am working on some email thing.

 

I'm parsing an email message, and here is what I want to do but don't know how to do it.

 

The example message coming in should be formatted something like this:

Subject: <username>
Message:
Username: stuffradio
password: plaintext

Photo caption: Cool stuff!
<embedded photo>

The embedded photo represents the file of the photo being uploaded. I already figured out how to strip the photo from the email and upload it.

 

The "<username>" will be their username in the database. I want to take the argument of the Username which is stuffradio, and password which is plaintext and check the database.

 

The password will be encrypted when checking against the database.

 

Does anyone have any tips on what I need to do here?

 

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Probably other ways to do it, but here is a solutions. I am not very good with Regular Expressions. :P

 

<?php

$str = <<<html
Subject: <username>
Message:
username: stuffradio
password: plaintext

Photo caption: Cool stuff!
<embedded photo>
html;

preg_match("#username: ([a-zA-Z0-9]+)#i",$str,$username);
$username = $username[1];
preg_match("#password: ([a-zA-Z0-9]+)#i",$str,$password);
$password = $password[1];

echo "Username is {$username} and password is {$password}.";

?>

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NOES! Do it in one regex call!

 

<?php

$subject = 'Subject: <username>
Message:
Username: stuffradio
password: plaintext

Photo caption: Cool stuff!
<embedded photo>';

preg_match_all( '/([a-z]++): (.++)/i', $subject, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );

# $matches[1][2] contains stuffradio
# $matches[2][2] contains plaintext
print_r( $matches );

?>

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