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Nov 24.2005

I have a <textarea> that has:
…
other stuff
[COLOR=Red]Size: Size Choice
Color:: Color Choice[/COLOR]
other stuff
…
I want the PHP to search until it finds “Size:”, then take the text after that until it reaches the end of the row (n).

Is there a function that does that? I looked at the manual, but I’m not using the right keywords.
Thanks

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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — Why don't you do as other people and have different input fields?
<i>
</i>&lt;input type="text" name="username" id="username"&gt;

[url=http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4]more about the INPUT tag[/url], you also might wanna check what other type of forms there are (on the page)

i believe you'd wanna use a select tag (drop-down) for the size and color choices
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@LocalHeroauthorNov 24.2005 — It's far more complicated than that. I understand html and php fine, I just want to know if it's possible to search a string for a keyword and get the text after. I just need to know what it's called so I can search myself.
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 24.2005 — regular expressions
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@bokehNov 24.2005 — [code=php]<?php
$target_string = '
other stuff
Size: big
Color: red
other stuff
';

// size
preg_match('#Size:(.+)#i', $target_string, $matches);
$size = trim($matches['1']);
echo $size;

echo '<br>';

// colour
preg_match('#Color:(.+)#i', $target_string, $matches);
$color = trim($matches['1']);
echo $color;
?>[/code]
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@LocalHeroauthorNov 24.2005 — Brilliant! Thanks a bunch!
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