php question

[Miko]

Hello,

 

I have a 'strange' situtation.

I have this string "Who Am I" that will be used as an header (site for a client) but the design shows that the word "Who" and the words "Am I" are in 2 different colors, in HTML this is a quick fix, but in PHP?

 

What I was thinking was explode the string and fetch the first element put it in a var en then concat the 2 others.

But what if the title is more then 3 elements after exploding? It needs to be more dynamic, but I don't know how to do it.

 

Does anyone have an idea?

[PaulRyan]

You are half way there with your idea, as it will work.

 

What do you want to do if the header is more than 3 words long?

Do you want a different color text for the words?

Do you want to carry on using the color being used for "Am I" or use the color used for "Who"?

 

If we know what you'd like to do, it would make it a little simpler for us

 

Regards, Paul.

[Miko]

The design shows me that the headers are only in 2 colors, so if the header has more then 3 words it will still stay the same and have 2 different colors (it's pretty nice though).

 

The main thing that I need is to figger out how to fetch the 'unknown amount' of elements after the first element (after exploding off course).

[PaulRyan]

Ohh right I understand, try the following...

<?php 

  function splitTitle($title) {
    // Split title
    $splitTitle = explode(" ",$title);
    // Count words in title
    $countWords = count($splitTitle);

    // Add each word EXCEPT first to $otherWords variable
    for($i=1; $i<$countWords; $i++) {
      $otherWords .= ' '.$splitTitle[$i];
    }

    return array($splitTitle[0], $otherWords); // Return the array of words
  }


$title = splitTitle('Who Am I People Lover'); // Set title as function

echo '<span style="color:red;">',$title[0],'</span>'; // Returns first word from title

echo '<span style="color:green;">',$title[1],'</span>'; // Returns other words from title
?>

 

Tell me how it goes bud.

 

Regards, Paul.

[Miko]

hot damn it works!! thanks mate!

[PaulRyan]

Glad I could help Miko

[DavidAM]

Also, consider the third parameter to explode(). It can be used to specify the number of elements to be generated.

 

$parts = explode(' ', 'Who am I', 2);
// $parts[0] will be 'Who'
// $parts[1] will be 'am I'