can someone help me with this script

[indiandomain]

i have a list of terms

loans
home loans
car loans
.
.

i want the script to output the list in the following format

loans, loans.php
home loans, home-loans.php
car loans, car-loans.php

i tried using javascript but i cant get to input the - in the files.

this should be easy for any php guru here.

i would appreciate any help.

[coopster]

One option would be to use preg_replace [php.net] to locate any whitespace and replace it with a single hyphen character (-):

<?php 
$list = array('loans', 'home loans', 'car loans'); 
foreach ($list as $value) { 
 print $value . ', ' . preg_replace("/\s+/", '-', $value) . '.php<br />'; 
} 
?> 

[indiandomain]

coopster
anyway i can input the list?
ur script works but ill have to input the terms manually in the script.

i wanted the script to pickup the list as input the show the output

[coopster]

I loaded an array with your terms as an example. Where is your terms list coming from?

[jetboy_70]

Create a form with a textarea element in it. Call it 'keywords'.

<textarea name="keywords" rows="6" wrap="off"></textarea>

Paste your list of keywords into the textarea. Post the form to your script. Access the form field and split the different keywords into array elements using:

$list = explode("\r\n", $_POST['keywords']);

Use $list in Coopster's function. :)

[ergophobe]

If you are certain that you are only replacing spaces, you should use str_replace instead of preg_replace, for efficiency's sake (faster). As the manual says under str_replace

If you don't need fancy replacing rules, you should always use this function instead of ereg_replace() or preg_replace().

so...

str_replace(" ", "-", $value);

Tom

[coopster]

True, but as ergophobe said, only if you are replacing a single space. Using str_replace(), any double spaces entered are going to return double dashes as well:

print str_replace(" ", "-", 'car loan');  // prints car-loan 
print str_replace(" ", "-", 'car  loan'); // prints car--loan 

If you want to replace any whitespace with a single dash, you'll need the regular expression.

[indiandomain]

thanks a millio guys.
i used an input table to enter the list.
it worked well.

appreciate all the help.

:)

[ergophobe]

Good point Coopster. I should have thought of it.

I'm a text editor by profession and can attest that even very clean text often has a scattering of double spaces throughout.

Tom