Split Array

[ms061210]

Hi can anyone give me an idea on how I can come out with an output like this:

$string = string1-1/string3-3/string3-3/  //this is the original string from DB
    //i want to split the strings and put it in the array, and the array should look like this
Array[0] = String
Array[1] = Int
Array[2] = String
Array[3] = Int
...and so on..

For better understanding of my problem, the string from db that I want to split is a set of strings that I concatenate when the user insert it.
Now, I want to split it up into STRINGS and INT so that I can subtract the INT value to the quantity of the STRING.

What I have done so far is like this:

 $result1 = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT orderline.product_id, product_name, category_id, orderline.qty_order, accessoryName
                            FROM orderline
                            INNER JOIN products
                            ON products.product_id = orderline.product_id
                            WHERE category_id = 10
                            AND orderline.order_no = $orno ");
                    while($row1 = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result1)) { 
                      $pcname = $row1['product_name']; //get the product name
                      $qty_order1 = $row1['qty_order'];
                      $aName = $row1['accessoryName']; //save accessory name to variable

    $ACname = explode("/", $aName); //ouput array[0]: name1-qty1, array[1]: name2-qty2, array[3]: name3-qty3 
            for ($a = 0; $a < count($ACname); ++$i) { //loop count: array size
                //loop split array[0] to array[n]
                    $ACEname = explode("-", $ACname); //ouput array[0]: name1, array[2]: price1, array[3]: name2, array[4]: price2

In my last line of code, I don't know what to do next.. Anyone have an idea on how I would come up to what I want? Suggestion please. Thanks!

[broj1]

// initialize output array
$outputArray = array();
$tmpArray = explode("/", $aName);
foreach ($tmpArray as $tmpString) { 
    $tmpOneRow = explode("-", $tmpString);
    // add two elements to the output array
    $outputArray[] = $tmpOneRow[0];
    $outputArray[] = $tmpOneRow[1];
}
// check the result
print_r($outputArray);

Beware: no error checking in above example. You might want to check for existence of elements.

[hakeemtunde]

just an idea.. u could separate the names from price i.e

    // initialize output array
    $nameArray = array();
    $priceArray = array();

    $tmpArray = explode("/", $aName);
    foreach ($tmpArray as $tmpString) {
    $tmpOneRow = explode("-", $tmpString);
    // add two elements to the output array
    $nameArray[] = $tmpOneRow[0];
    $priceArray[] = $tmpOneRow[1];
    }
    // check the result
   for($i=0; $i<count($nameArray); i++)
   {
     print "Name: ".$$nameArray[$i]." Price: " .$priceArray[$i];
   }

Although all depends on what you want to do. There are many ways of improving this to get what you want

[veedeoo]

Just another deviation of the two proposed solutions above on a single loop.

$string = 'string1-1/string2-2/string3-3';

$array_string = explode('/',$string);

foreach($array_string as $items){

        $item = explode('-',$items);

        echo 'Item : '. $item[0].'  Price:  '.$item[1].'<br/>';

}

returns

Item : string1 Price: 1
Item : string2 Price: 2
Item : string3 Price: 3

you just need to initialize the array as shown on Broj1 and Hakeemtunde responses.