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Old July 1st, 2004, 06:43 PM
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Grabbing a string in between two strings
Can somone tell me how or write me a function that will grab a string in between two strings?
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Old July 2nd, 2004, 05:36 AM
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What exactly do you want? Could you give an example please?

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Old July 2nd, 2004, 09:46 AM
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For example, im the .tmpl file the content is:

[forum_listcat]
<table>
{content}
</table>
[/forum_listcat]

[forum_listtopics]
<table>
{content}
</table>
[/forum_listtopics]

I need the example to grab the string in between the brackets,

[forum_listcat]
[/forum_listcat]

That part will only return

<table>
{content}
</table>
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Ok here are some thoughts about how I would go about this -

1) You could use an xml file format instead, then one of the many high quality xml parsing tools available to do this rather than writing your own.

2) Create yourself a function that accepts the open and close tags and finds the occurances of them using strpos and then substr to get whats in between.

3) Some kind of clever regex which I'm sure is applicable here but personally I hate them and generally refuse to acknowledge they exist .

Hope one of these is of some use,

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Old July 2nd, 2004, 02:50 PM
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Thx, I have successfully made an working function!

If anyone wants the code just ask for it here
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Old July 2nd, 2004, 08:45 PM
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Wait.....Nevermind. The new function I made doesn't work correctly. Here's the code:

PHP Code:
function exo_skin($find)
        {

        include "exoConfigs.php";

                if (!file_exists("".$tmplpath."".$skinfile.".tmpl")){
                        $skin="Server Error: Skin file doesn't exist.";
                }
                else
                {

                        if (!is_readable("".$tmplpath."".$skinfile.".tmpl")){
                                $skin="Server Error: Skin file is not readable.";
                        }
                        else
                        {

                        $handle = fopen("".$tmplpath."".$skinfile.".tmpl", "r");
                        $output = fread($handle, filesize("".$tmplpath."".$skinfile.".tmpl"));
                        fclose($handle);

                if (substr_count($output,"[".$find."]")=="0" || substr_count($output,"[/".$find."]")=="0"){
                    $skin="Cannot find skin field specified.";
                }
                else
                {

                    $first=0;
                    $second=0;

                    $first=strpos($output, "[".$find."]");
                    $second=strpos($output, "[/".$find."]");
                    $skin=substr($output, $first, $second);
                    $skin=str_replace("[".$find."]","",$skin);
                    $skin=str_replace("[/".$find."]","",$skin);
                    //$skin = preg_replace("/\[".$find."\](.*)\[\/".$find."\]/Uis","$1", $skin);
                }
                        }
                }

        return $skin;

        } 


When you call this function more than once, it messes up.

I used this:

PHP Code:
echo "".exo_skin("nocat")."<br>";
echo "".exo_skin("categories")."<br>";
echo "".exo_skin("listcattopics")."<br>";
echo "".exo_skin("notopiccat")."<br>"; 


with the content in skin.tmpl:
PHP Code:
[nocat]
{exo_error}
[/nocat]

[categories]
<b>{exo_topic}</b><br>
[/categories]
[listcattopics]
{exo_topic}<br>
{exo_desc}<br>
{exo_topics} Topics - {exo_replies} Replies - Last Post: {exo_lastpost}<br>
<br>[/listcattopics]

[notopiccat]
{exo_error}<br>
[/notopiccat] 


Here were the results:

PHP Code:
{exo_error} 
{exo_topic}[listcattopics] 
{exo_topic}
{exo_desc}
{exo_topics} Topics - {exo_replies} Replies - Last Post: {exo_lastpost}

[notopiccat] {exo_error}
[/notopiccat]
{exo_error} 


Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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