Re: [PHP] Funky array question
one more thing... if you have php <5 and >= 3.0.6, you could use
stristr for case insensitive comparison without having to deal with
the slower and more cumbersome regex.
On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Minuk Choi wrote:
Assuming that you are also accepting partial matches... (e.g. if
you had a sentence with something like, "Mr. LeBlue says hello", and
that should be a match for "blue")
If $mysqlString contains 1 sentence from the mySQL database(I
assume you've a loop or something that'll fetch 1 string per
iteration)
$resultStr = $mysqlString;
$bFound=false;
foreach ($myArray as $colorArray)
{
$firstTerm = $colorArray[0];
$secondTerm = $colorArray[1];
if (strpos($resultStr, $firstTerm)!==false)
{
$resultStr = $secondTerm;
$bFound=true;
}
if ($bFound)
break;
}
$mysqlString = $resultStr;
Try that.
Brian Dunning wrote:
I want to create an array like this:
$myArray=array(
array('orange','A very bright color'),
array('blue','A nice color like the ocean'),
array('yellow','Very bright like the sun') ...etc...
)
Sort of like a small database in memory. Then I want to compare
each of the rows coming out of a MySQL call, which are sentences,
against this array to see if the FIRST TERM in each array element
is present in the sentence, and then display the SECOND TERM from
the array for each sentence. Make sense? So for these two
sentences, and the above array, here's how I want it to output:
"He used blue paint" - A nice color like the ocean.
"The flower was yellow" - Very bright like the sun.
Can someone help me out with the code needed to search the
sentence to which FIRST TERM appears in it, and retrieve the
SECOND TERM? I've tried too many things and now my brain is tied
in a knot.
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Re: [PHP] Funky array question
sorry, I am mistaken here. I forgot that "!==" is the same functionality as a "===", in that the comparison is made by value *and* type. On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:26 PM, Jordan Miller wrote: Also, note the warning on the man page. you would want to use a triple equals sign "!===false" because stripos could return a zero or an empty string which is actually "==false". -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Funky array question
Hello,
what have you been trying for comparison so far that has not been
working?
if you have php 5, you would want to use stripos, which is case-
INsensitive, not strpos, which is the opposite.
Also, note the warning on the man page. you would want to use a
triple equals sign "!===false" because stripos could return a zero or
an empty string which is actually "==false".
http://www.php.net/stripos/
if you do not have php 5, i would use regex so you can get case
insensitivity.
Jordan
On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Minuk Choi wrote:
Assuming that you are also accepting partial matches... (e.g. if
you had a sentence with something like, "Mr. LeBlue says hello", and
that should be a match for "blue")
If $mysqlString contains 1 sentence from the mySQL database(I
assume you've a loop or something that'll fetch 1 string per
iteration)
$resultStr = $mysqlString;
$bFound=false;
foreach ($myArray as $colorArray)
{
$firstTerm = $colorArray[0];
$secondTerm = $colorArray[1];
if (strpos($resultStr, $firstTerm)!==false)
{
$resultStr = $secondTerm;
$bFound=true;
}
if ($bFound)
break;
}
$mysqlString = $resultStr;
Try that.
Brian Dunning wrote:
I want to create an array like this:
$myArray=array(
array('orange','A very bright color'),
array('blue','A nice color like the ocean'),
array('yellow','Very bright like the sun') ...etc...
)
Sort of like a small database in memory. Then I want to compare
each of the rows coming out of a MySQL call, which are sentences,
against this array to see if the FIRST TERM in each array element
is present in the sentence, and then display the SECOND TERM from
the array for each sentence. Make sense? So for these two
sentences, and the above array, here's how I want it to output:
"He used blue paint" - A nice color like the ocean.
"The flower was yellow" - Very bright like the sun.
Can someone help me out with the code needed to search the
sentence to which FIRST TERM appears in it, and retrieve the
SECOND TERM? I've tried too many things and now my brain is tied
in a knot.
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Re: [PHP] Funky array question
Assuming that you are also accepting partial matches... (e.g. if you had
a sentence with something like, "Mr. LeBlue says hello", and
that should be a match for "blue")
If $mysqlString contains 1 sentence from the mySQL database(I assume
you've a loop or something that'll fetch 1 string per iteration)
$resultStr = $mysqlString;
$bFound=false;
foreach ($myArray as $colorArray)
{
$firstTerm = $colorArray[0];
$secondTerm = $colorArray[1];
if (strpos($resultStr, $firstTerm)!==false)
{
$resultStr = $secondTerm;
$bFound=true;
}
if ($bFound)
break;
}
$mysqlString = $resultStr;
Try that.
Brian Dunning wrote:
I want to create an array like this:
$myArray=array(
array('orange','A very bright color'),
array('blue','A nice color like the ocean'),
array('yellow','Very bright like the sun') ...etc...
)
Sort of like a small database in memory. Then I want to compare each
of the rows coming out of a MySQL call, which are sentences, against
this array to see if the FIRST TERM in each array element is present
in the sentence, and then display the SECOND TERM from the array for
each sentence. Make sense? So for these two sentences, and the above
array, here's how I want it to output:
"He used blue paint" - A nice color like the ocean.
"The flower was yellow" - Very bright like the sun.
Can someone help me out with the code needed to search the sentence
to which FIRST TERM appears in it, and retrieve the SECOND TERM? I've
tried too many things and now my brain is tied in a knot.
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[PHP] Funky array question
I want to create an array like this:
$myArray=array(
array('orange','A very bright color'),
array('blue','A nice color like the ocean'),
array('yellow','Very bright like the sun') ...etc...
)
Sort of like a small database in memory. Then I want to compare each
of the rows coming out of a MySQL call, which are sentences, against
this array to see if the FIRST TERM in each array element is present
in the sentence, and then display the SECOND TERM from the array for
each sentence. Make sense? So for these two sentences, and the above
array, here's how I want it to output:
"He used blue paint" - A nice color like the ocean.
"The flower was yellow" - Very bright like the sun.
Can someone help me out with the code needed to search the sentence
to which FIRST TERM appears in it, and retrieve the SECOND TERM? I've
tried too many things and now my brain is tied in a knot.
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