Topic: php explode

[Exoon]

Hello

Ive got a text area and i want to seperate each link that is placed inside the text area,.

Is there a way using php exlode or somthing to reconise that the link has finished? Each of the links in the text area are on a new line.

Thanks in advance.

[wildteen88]

If each link is on new line then you can explode on the new line character
$links = explode("\n", $_POST['your_text_field_name']);

[Exoon]

Hello,

Just tried that but it only picks up the first link and ignores the rest.

[wildteen88]

Post your code here and some example links you're posting in your textarea

[Exoon]

<?php

if($_POST[newlinks]) {

$newlinks = $_POST['newlinks'];

$newlinks = explode(',', $newlinks);

    foreach ($newlinks as $newlink) {
      $new_number = substr("$newlink", -13, 4);    
      echo "Updating Number: $new_number with the link $newlink <br />";
   }
  
}





echo "<form method=\"POST\" action=\"mass_links.php\">";
echo "<br /> <strong>Enter the new links to try and replace old ones</strong> <br />";
echo "<textarea rows=\"16\" name=\"newlinks\" cols=\"84\"></textarea>";

 
?>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">



That is using a commer which works but ide rather not have to type a commer after every link.



Some example links:

http://hotfile.com/dl/66308847/1976bc7/3517.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66265394/24d9c85/4287.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66263943/872c67d/4472.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66264228/207bccd/4529.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66303652/586fd94/4787.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66307127/190e87c/5176.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/66262702/3b609e4/5180.rar.html

[wildteen88]

Use preg_split() instead
    $newlinks = preg_split('~\s+~s', $_POST['newlinks']);

[Alex]

The reason it probably wasn't working before is because you were using single quotes. \n inside of single quotes is taken to be the literal characters "\" and "n" and not a line break character.

[Exoon]

Thanks, that worked a treat. Do you know why it always does 1 more then it should ?

[wildteen88]

Do you know why it always does 1 more then it should ?

How do you mean?