getting selected strings within another string

  • Resolved fas.khan

    (@faskhan)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    My Plugin is creating a string with the following value.
    :11:{i:0;s:14:"General public";i:1;s:24:"Educational institutions";i:2;s:16:"Large enterprise";i:3;s:15:"Local authority";i:4;s:15:"Local community";i:5;s:24:"Professional association";i:6;s:25:"Professional organization";i:7;s:20:"Research institution";i:8;s:30:"Small and Medium sized company";i:9;s:15:"Training center";i:10;s:30:"Young people between 15 and 25";}

    Now, I want only these values between the ” “, which are for example:-

    – General public
    – Educational institutions
    – Large enterprise
    – …

    So basically a function that would allow me to put the values between ” and ” into some array.

    Could you help me building a function in PHP like this? or may be there is some built in action which I cant find ??

    Many Thanks

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  • What you are showing is a ‘serialized’ array. You can ‘unserialize’ it and list the entries in a loop. (You are missing the letter ‘a’ at the first of the string.)

    Assuming that the string is in the variable $list, this will unserialize it and list the items:

    $items = unserialize($list);
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($items as $item) {
   echo "<li>$item</li>";
}
echo '</ul>';
    Thread Starter fas.khan

    (@faskhan)

    wow! thanks vtxyzzy

    I was just looking at the string and found a pattern of its appearence …

    so i did this…

    $adf= (explode('"',$post->options));

        		    $i=0;
        		    $len = strlen($adf);

        		    for ($i = 0; $i < count($adf); $i++)
                            {
                                       if ( $i %2 != 0)
        			       	echo $adf[$i]."<br />";
        			   }

    It just gave me the values.

    Many Thanks again.

    Glad you found a solution. Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic ‘Resolved’.

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