Alice Wei wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 
>   Sorry, I cannot use that because I am supposed to turn the string into 
> something that looks like

Sounds like we are doing someones school work again.

> regions.name LIKE '%47406' OR regions.name LIKE '%Detroit', which I had to 
> fix $string3 variable to   
> 
>   $string3="regions.name LIKE '%" . $stringChunk2[$j] . "'";
> 
>   The goal is that the $message variable would be only a $_POST['message'] 
> variable so that the where clause can be generated dynamically. 
>   The code I have above is part of my where clause in the full SQL statement 
> I intend to
> construct, which means I have to reuse this $string3 variable somewhere
> else.
>   
> This is what my global declaration looks like: 
> 
>   if ($j <$count_chunk_2) {
> 
>          $string2= " OR ";
>          $string3=$string3.$string2;
>          global $string3;
>    }
>      else {
>          //Don't do anything
>    }
>        echo $string3;
>   }
>     echo $string3;

against my better judgment, I believe this is what you are looking for.

# Get your starting string
$pieces = "47406|Detroit";

# Break it into the parts you are looking to use
$parts  = explode("|", $pieces);

# Empty temporary array
$tmpHolder = array();

# Loop through parts list
foreach ( $parts AS $part ) {

        # Create a single statement and stuff it in your tmp array
        $tmpHolder[] = "regions.name LIKE '%{$part}'";
}

# Join all the parts together, placing an OR between each element.
$string3 = join(' OR ', $tmpHolder);


> 
>    The last $string3 echo only gives me regions.name
> LIKE '%Detroit' according to the current construct and not regions.name
> LIKE '%47406' OR regions.name LIKE '%Detroit'. Is there something else I 
> should do to have it give me the same output as the echo $string3 as I have 
> had after the second to last curly brace? 
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> 
> Alice
> 
> 
>> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:22:44 -0500
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> CC: php-general@lists.php.net
>> Subject: Re: [PHP] Globals or Super Global Variables To Be Reused from For 
>> Loops
>>
>> [snip]
>> [/snip]
>>
>> Alice,
>>
>> The big problem here is that you are resetting the $string3 variable in the
>> loop
>>
>>   for ($j=0; $j<$count_chunk2; $j++) {
>>
>>          $string3= $stringChunk2[$j];                //  <<<------ resetting
>> the value
>>      if ($j <$count_chunk_2) {
>>         $string2= " OR ";
>>         $string3=$string3.$string2;
>>   }
>>     else {
>>         //Don't do anything
>>   }
>>       echo $string3;
>>  }
>>
>>
>> I am not sure of your goal since you have not stated it, but it certainly
>> should be easier to just replace the PIPE  with the OR
>>
>> $message = str_replace("|", " OR ", $message);
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Bastien
>>
>> Cat, the other other white meat
> 
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