PHP Array Problem

Using Explode

[boxfan]

I have the following

$BB_Basket = "basket=¦APL6007,2.00¦AVX8900,1.00¦ARCAV500,1.00";
$basket_containers = explode('¦', $BB_Basket);
unset($basket_containers[0]);
print_r($basket_containers);

This results in

Array ( [1] => APL6007,2.00 [2] => AVX8900,1.00 [3] => ARCAV500,1.00 )

Now when I try to explode further with

$basket_items = explode(',', $basket_containers);
print_r($basket_items);

This results in

Array ( [0] => Array )

This should result in a 6 item array. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[phpsir]

try
$basket_items = explode(',', $basket_containers[1]);

[boxfan]

Yeah, that worked but doesn't solve the problem. I just get the first two item in the array when I'm looking for a complete array of all 6 items.

I tried to reset() the array before exploding it but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

[eelixduppy]

Try something like this:

$BB_Basket = "basket=¦APL6007,2.00¦AVX8900,1.00¦ARCAV500,1.00";
$pattern = "/[¦,]/";
echo '<pre>';
print_r([url=http://www.php.net/preg-split]preg_split[/url]($pattern,$BB_Basket));
echo '</pre>';

Note: If you copy and paste the code, remember to replace the pipe character (¦) with a solid one.

Good luck! :)

[boxfan]

That worked perfectly, any idea why my code wasn't working?

[eelixduppy]

>> any idea why my code wasn't working?

explode [php.net] takes a string as a parameter, not an array. You were passing it an array and it basically wasn't doing anything with it.

To use explode, you would either have to loop through each element in the array, explode each, and then push each of those values onto another array - or - you could explode the original with ¦ as the separator, then implode the results of that with a comma, and then explode it again with a comma as the separator; way too much work! A nice preg_split does the trick nicely :)

[boxfan]

Thanks again and also for the explanation.