Filtering a string of text to find a value

[dmccabe]

Ok lets say I have a string like this:

 

CN=IT Dept,OU=IT,OU=Head Office,OU=xxx.com,OU=xxxusers,DC=xxx,DC=com

 

Now the layout of the string will be the same always and the section I want to capture iswhere it says "IT Dept".  So after the first = and before the first ,.

 

However the value itself will vary depending on what department the user is part of.

[cooldude832]

this data doesn't happen to be the get data is it?

try

print_r($_GET);

[dmccabe]

No at the moment this is the data as pulled from LDAP.

[cooldude832]

well assuming you left the comma as a reserved character for delimination you can explode it then

 

<?php
$string = "CN=IT Dept,OU=IT,OU=Head Office,OU=xxx.com,OU=xxxusers,DC=xxx,DC=com";
$string= explode(",",$string);
Print_r($string);
?>

 

Only issue with this is the keys are lost so you will need to find the keys in it

[craygo]

What do you want to do with the data?? Are you looking to search through the string for a certain dept??

[dmccabe]

Basically once they log in I want to catch what department they are a part of, then later on I can use this for what menu's they should see.

[craygo]

So the CN is the department they are in correct?? and it is always the first entry, correct.

 

try this if what I assume is correct

<?php
$string = "CN=IT Deptartment,OU=IT,OU=Head Office,OU=xxx.com,OU=xxxusers,DC=xxx,DC=com";
$start = strpos($string, "=");
$end = strpos($string, ",");
$pos = $end - $start - 1;
$dept = substr($string, 3, $pos);

echo $dept;
?>

 

You could always put it in a function.

<?php
$string = "CN=IT Deptartment,OU=IT,OU=Head Office,OU=xxx.com,OU=xxxusers,DC=xxx,DC=com";

function find_dept($string){
$start = strpos($string, "=");
$end = strpos($string, ",");
$pos = $end - $start - 1;
$dept = substr($string, 3, $pos);
return $dept;
}

$dept = find_dept($string);

echo $dept
?>

 

 

 

Ray

[lordfrikk]

What about this?

 

<?php
$str = 'CN=IT Dept,OU=IT,OU=Head Office,OU=xxx.com,OU=xxxusers,DC=xxx,DC=com';
$v = preg_match('/^CN=(.+?),/', $str, $match);
$dept = $match[1];
?>

[craygo]

Hate the guys that know Regex!!!! 

 

Ray

[dmccabe]

lol Tried yours first Ray and it worked perfectly, however i will use the RegEx if thats ok