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Apr 28.2010

I’d like to load textbox content to array line by line, like this:

textbox

[QUOTE]

name
surname
phone
email

[/QUOTE]

array

[QUOTE]

Array[0] = “name”
Array[1] = “surname”
Array[2] = “phone”
Array[3] = “email”

[/QUOTE]

I tried this way but it doesn’t work:

[QUOTE]

$person = $rows[‘textbox’];
$Array = explode(‘n’, $person);

[/QUOTE]

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@PprakashApr 28.2010 — where was you put textarea, i mean in the form or in the directly php script. when you convert data in textarea into array. please learly explined.

but i give one sugesion,

tried r insted of n , and also tried split insted of explode function
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — I have it into a form.
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@PprakashApr 28.2010 — when was you want to data into array, after submission or before submission.
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — After submit. I want read textbox line by line to later post specific array lines to database.
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@JonaApr 28.2010 — [font=arial]Hi,

Try using double-quotes instead of a string literal. The single-quotes will search for n, but the double-quotes will search for a linefeed.[/font]
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — I did but it doesn't help. I tried "n", "r" and "rn" with explode and split but no result.
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@JonaApr 28.2010 — [font=arial]Are you getting the full string? If you echo out $rows['textarea'], do you get the full result?[/font]
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — Yes I do. After trying to split or explode I'm getting full string as Array[0] and it looks like "name surname phone email".
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@JonaApr 28.2010 — [font=arial]The code you have should work. You could be extra careful and split via regexps, but that seems like overkill.

If you view the source of that output, are they new lines or spaces in the resulting HTML?[/font]
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — New lines as:

name

surname

phone

email [/QUOTE]
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@JonaApr 28.2010 — [font=arial]Strange... This doesn't work?[/font]

[code=php]
$person = $rows['textbox'];
$Array = explode("n", $person);

print_r ($Array);
[/code]
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — It's giving empty result:


Array

(

[0] =>

)
[/QUOTE]
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@ChipzzzApr 28.2010 — It looked right to me, too, so I tried this:
<i>
</i>$person = "NamenSurnamenSomethingnSomething else";
$Array = explode("n", $person);

print_r ($Array);


and it worked as expected:
<i>
</i>Array
(
[0] =&gt; Name
[1] =&gt; Surname
[2] =&gt; Something
[3] =&gt; Something else
)


It would seem likely that there must be something wrong with the line:
<i>
</i>$person = $rows['textbox'];


but without seeing the rest of the code there is no way to know what.

I hope this helps.
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@HelleshternauthorApr 28.2010 — Oh my god you're right!

Instead:
$person = $rows['textbox'];[/QUOTE]

Should be:
$person = $_POST['textbox'];[/QUOTE]

That was the problem and I didn't noticed it before. Now it works.

[B]Thank you all for your time.[/B]
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@JonaApr 28.2010 — Oh my god you're right!

That was the problem and I didn't noticed it before. Now it works.

[B]Thank you all for your time.[/B][/QUOTE]

[font=arial]This is why I asked if the output was what you expected. I'm curious how you managed to get output as you described if you weren't using that variable. ;-)

I would recommend turning on strict error reporting so that PHP will produce notifications when you attempt to reference the value of an unset variable. It should help with your debugging process.[/font]
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@ChipzzzApr 29.2010 — Happy to be of service ?
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@PprakashApr 29.2010 — finally you got result, after submit data via post method the data at server stored in $_POST array
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