Explode

[CodyBecker]

Hi all,

 

(Im new to this so go easy on me  )

 

I have a messaging system set up and i want one input field to contain the location to be sent and the message.  So i basically want a text-box that will contain this information in this format.... 

 

[location], [text to send]

 

so . . . . . if i were sending a message to ABC i would type into the text box . . .

 

ABC, Hi how are you

 

So im guessing i would use explode to find the receiver name (ABC) and the message text (Hi how are you) and post them.

[cags]

You could use explode for this function but their are several drawbacks. The main one being it will give you problems if you use commas in your message, something which I would have thought you would want to use. The simplest way around that problem is to simply use a less used character such as a colon (. A more complex solution would be to use either the string functions (such as strpos, substr, strtok etc) to separate the text before the first instance of (,) or to use regular expressions to achieve the same task.