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May 03.2006

This is php 101 for sure, but for some reason I can’t find the answer. Not knowing how to word the search might be the problem actually…anyway, here you go.

I need to split strings by spaces.

So I have a form with drop downs to grab a month then a year. I then combine those values and write them to a single DB field. When I retreive them I would like to break them back out into seperate values. I guess I can do this with:

$date = explode(” “, $dates);
foreach($date as $datenum)
{
//alternate values with a counter for year and month
}

…but I seem to remember a built in method of just grabing the value of a string before or after a character (in my case a ” “).

Ugg someone hit me in the head with a shovel or something, why am I blanking on this?

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@Brooksie155May 03.2006 — [code=php]$space_position = strpos($dates," ");[/code]

You should find that $space_position will contain the strings index value for the space.

Therefore:
[code=php]
$month = substr($dates,0,$space_position);
$year = substr($dates,$space_postion + 1, strlen($dates));
[/code]

Not sure if this is what you meant, personally I would stick with the way you were doing before except extract each part individually, as oppose to using a loop:

[code=php]
// Assuming "mm yyyy"
$date = explode(" ", $dates);
$month = $date[0];
$year = $date[2];
[/code]
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@Doc_ThirstauthorMay 03.2006 — ARRGGG! Thanks man. Thats what Im looking for, seems as though I am getting my sql and my php mixxed up. I understand you can accomplish the same thing with a sql statment as well.

Sorry for brainfreeze. Thanks again.
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@NogDogMay 03.2006 — [code=php]
$date = "May 2006";
list($month, $year) = explode(" ", $date);
[/code]
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