I'm build a site that is not in English, but some of the data may contain English. When I sort lists, for example:
sort($tags, SORT_LOCALE_STRING);
English strings always come first (because Latin letters have the lowest ordinals in Unicode), even though my site is primarily for non-English speakers.
I would like to have a sort function that sorts the strings lexicographically in the same way as the standard PHP sort, but always puts English strings after all the non-English strings. Any ideas?
Ok, this is cheating, but eventually I did this:
$tags = getSomeTags();
$tags_eng = $tags_lang = [];
foreach ($tags as $tag => $value) {
if ($tag[0] <= 'z') $tags_eng[$tag] = $value;
else $tags_lang[$tag] = $value;
}
ksort($tags_eng); ksort($tags_lang);
$tags = $tags_lang + $tags_eng;
Array "union" operation maintains the order of elements, so that works well.
Please note that its important not to use array_merge() for concatenating the arrays at the end, because if you have string keys that look like a number (compare "9" with 9), then array_merge() will think its an "indexed item" and will do weird stuff with it (resetting the key to the earliest available index).
I'd love it if someone can come up with a better method.
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The following is the code
<?php
$id ="202883-202882-202884-0";
$str = implode('-',array_unique(explode('-', $id)));
echo $str;
?>
The result is
202883-202882-202884-0
for $id ="202883-202882-202882-0";, result is 202883-202882-0
I would like to replace the duplicate value with zero, so that the result should be like 202883-202882-0-0, not just remove it.
and for $id ="202883-0-0-0";, result should be 202883-0-0-0. zero should not be replaced, repeating zeros are allowed.
How can I archive that?
More info:
I want to replace every duplicate numbers. Because this is for a product comparison website. There will be only maximum 4 numbers. each will be either a 6 digit number or single digit zero. all zero means no product was selected. one 6 digit number and 3 zero means, one product selected and 3 blank.
Each 6 digit number will collect data from database, I dont want to allow users to enter same number multiple times (will happen only if the number is add with the URL manually.).
Update: I understand that my question was not clear, may be my English is poor.
Here is more explanation, this function is for a smartphone comparison website.
The URL format is sitename.com/compare.html?id=202883-202882-202889-202888.
All three numbers are different smartphones(their database product ID).
I dont want to let users to type in the same product ID like id=202883-202882-202882-202888. It will not display two 202882 results in the website, but it will cause some small issues. The URL will be same without change, but the internal PHP code should consider it as id=202883-202882-202888-0.
The duplicates should be replaced as zero and added to the end.
There will be only 4 numbers separated by "-".
The following examples might clear the cloud!
if pid=202883-202882-202889-202888 the result should be 202883-202882-202889-202888
if pid=202883-202883-202883-202888 the result should be 202888-0-0-0
if pid=202883-202882-202883-202888 the result should be 202883-202882-202888-0
if pid=202882-202882-202882-202882 the result should be 202882-0-0-0
I want to allow only either 6 digit numbers or single digit zero through the string.
if pid=rgfsdg-fgsdfr4354-202883-0 the result should be 202883-0-0-0
if pid=fasdfasd-asdfads-adsfds-dasfad the result should be 0-0-0-0
if pid=4354-45882-445202882-202882 the result should be 202882-0-0-0
It is too complicated for me create, I know there are bright minds out there who can do it much more efficiently than I can.
You can do a array_unique (preserves key), then fill the gaps with 0. Sort by key and you are done :)
+ on arrays will unify the arrays but prioritizes the one on the left.
Code
$input = "0-1-1-3-1-1-3-5-0";
$array = explode('-', $input);
$result = array_unique($array) + array_fill(0, count($array), 0);
ksort($result);
var_dump(implode('-',$result));
Code (v2 - suggested by mickmackusa) - shorter and easier to understand
Fill an array of the size of the input array. And replace by leftover values from array_unique. No ksort needed. 0s will be replaced at the preserved keys of array_unique.
$input = "0-1-1-3-1-1-3-5-0";
$array = explode('-', $input);
$result = array_replace(array_fill(0, count($array), 0), array_unique($array));
var_export($result);
Working example.
Output
string(17) "0-1-0-3-0-0-0-5-0"
Working example.
references
ksort - sort by key
array_fill - generate an array filled with 0 of a certain length
This is another way to do it.
$id = "202883-202882-202882-0-234567-2-2-45435";
From the String you explode the string into an array based on the delimiter which in this case is '-'/
$id_array = explode('-', $id);
Then we can loop through the array and for every unique entry we find, we can store it in another array. Thus we are building an array as we search through the array.
$id_array_temp = [];
// Loop through the array
foreach ($id_array as $value) {
if ( in_array($value, $id_array_temp)) {
// If the entry exists, replace it with a 0
$id_array_temp[] = 0;
} else {
// If the entry does not exist, save the value so we can inspect it on the next loop.
$id_array_temp[] = $value;
}
}
At the end of this operation we will have an array of unique values with any duplicates replaced with a 0.
To recreate the string, we can use implode...
$str = implode('-', $id_array_temp);
echo $str;
Refactoring this, using a ternary to replace the If,else...
$id_array = explode('-', $id);
$id_array_temp = [];
foreach ($id_array as $value) {
$id_array_temp[] = in_array($value, $id_array_temp) ? 0 : $value;
}
$str = implode('-', $id_array_temp);
echo $str;
Output is
202883-202882-0-0-234567-2-0-45435
This appears to be a classic XY Problem.
The essential actions only need to be:
Separate the substrings in the hyphen delimited string.
Validate that the characters in each substring are in the correct format AND are unique to the set.
Only take meaningful action on qualifying value.
You see, there is no benefit to replacing/sanitizing anything when you only really need to validate the input data. Adding zeros to your input just creates more work later.
In short, you should use a direct approach similar to this flow:
if (!empty($_GET['id'])) {
$ids = array_unique(explode('-', $_GET['id']));
foreach ($ids as $id) {
if (ctype_digit($id) && strlen($id) === 6) {
// or: if (preg_match('~^\d{6}$~', $id)) {
takeYourNecessaryAction($id);
}
}
}
So I've got this:
$h = $user_goals;
while($h > 0) {
randomScorer();
$minute = rand(0,90);
echo "(".$minute.")<br>";
$h--;
Basically, what it does is, $user_goals, has a load of factors drawn into it and creates a number, between 0-5, and this information is used to generate the times of the goals, using the above PHP function.
It's working, it's brilliant, etc. However, the numbers are appearing in random order in which they are generated and so I was wondering:
Is there any way to sort these numbers?
Would I put them into an array during this iteration methodology, and then sort the array by the number's value?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
That is why PHP provides us Sort functions. Have a look here.
<?php
$fruits = array("lemon", "orange", "banana", "apple");
sort($fruits);
?>
Since your array is NUMERIC, you need to use the FLAG along with the sort function.
sort($goals, SORT_NUMERIC);
print_r($goals);
Same idea, using sort() but also uses range and array_walkto set up your array a little closer to how you already do it:
$goal_array = range(1, $user_goals); // Warning, assumes $user_goals is number
array_walk($goal_array, function(&$goal) {
randomScorer();
$goal = rand(0,90);
});
sort($goal_array, SORT_NUMERIC);
This is fairly confusing, but I'll try to explain as best I can...
I've got a MYSQL table full of strings like this:
{3}12{2}3{5}52
{3}7{2}44
{3}15{2}2{4}132{5}52{6}22
{3}15{2}3{4}168{5}52
Each string is a combination of product options and option values. The numbers inside the { } are the option, for example {3} = Color. The number immediately following each { } number is that option's value, for example 12 = Blue. I've already got the PHP code that knows how to parse these strings and deliver the information correctly, with one exception: For reasons that are probably too convoluted to get into here, the order of the options needs to be 3,4,2,5,6. (To try to modify the rest of the system to accept the current order would be too monumental a task.) It's fine if a particular combination doesn't have all five options, for instance "{3}7{2}44" delivers the expected result. The problem is just with combinations that include option 2 AND option 4-- their order needs to be switched so that any combination that includes both options 2 and 4, the {4} and its corresponding value comes before the {2} and it's corresponding value.
I've tried bringing the column into Excel and using Text to Columns, splitting them up by the "{" and "}" characters and re-ordering the columns, but since not every string yields the same number of columns, the order gets messed up in other ways (like option 5 coming before option 2).
I've also experimented with using PHP to explode each string into an array (which I thought I could then re-sort) using "}" as the delimiter, but I had no luck with that either because then the numbers blend together in other ways that make them unusable.
TL;DR: I have a bunch of strings like the ones quoted above. In every string that contains both a "{2}" and a "{4}", the placement of both of those values needs to be switched, so that the {4} and the number that follows it comes before the {2} and the number that follows it. In other words:
{3}15{2}3{4}168{5}52
needs to become
{3}15{4}168{2}3{5}52
The closest I've been able to come to a solution, in pseudocode, would be something like:
for each string,
if "{4}" is present in this string AND "{2}" is present in this string,
take the "{4}" and every digit that follows it UNTIL you hit another "{" and store that substring as a variable, then remove it from the string.
then, insert that substring back into the string, at a position starting immediately before the "{2}".
I hope that makes some kind of sense...
Is there any way with PHP, Excel, Notepad++, regular expressions, etc., that I can do this? Any help would be insanely appreciated.
EDITED TO ADD: After several people posted solutions, which I tried, I realized that it would be crucial to mention that my host is running PHP 5.2.17, which doesn't seem to allow for usort with custom sorting. If I could upvote everyone's solution (all of which I tried in PHP Sandbox and all of which worked), I would, but my rep is too low.
How would something like this work for you. The first 9 lines just transform your string into an array with each element being an array of the option number and value. The Order establishes an order for the items to appear in and the last does a usort utilizing the order array for positions.
$str = "{3}15{2}2{4}132{5}52{6}22";
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('/\{([0-9]+)\}([0-9]+)/', $str, $matches);
array_shift($matches);
$options = array();
for($x = 0; $x < count($matches[0]); $x++){
$options[] = array($matches[0][$x], $matches[1][$x]);
}
$order = [3,4,2,5,6];
usort($options, function($a, $b) use ($order) {
return array_search($a[0], $order) - array_search($b[0], $order);
});
To get you data back into the required format you would just
$str = "";
foreach($options as $opt){
$str.="{".$opt[0]."}".$opt[1];
}
On of the bonuses here is that when you add a new options type inserting adjusting the order is just a matter of inserting the option number in the correct position of the $order array.
First of all, those options should probably be in a separate table. You're breaking all kinds of normalization rules stuffing those things into a string like that.
But if you really want to parse that out in php, split the string into a key=>value array with something like this:
$options = [];
$pairs = explode('{', $option_string);
foreach($pairs as $pair) {
list($key,$value) = explode('}', $pair);
$options[$key] = $value;
}
I think this will give you:
$options[3]=15;
$options[2]=3;
$options[4]=168;
$options[5]=52;
Another option would be to use some sort of existing serialization (either serialize() or json_encode() in php) instead of rolling your own:
$options_string = json_encode($options);
// store $options_string in db
then
// get $options_string from db
$options = json_decode($options_string);
Here's a neat solution:
$order = array(3, 4, 2, 5, 6);
$string = '{3}15{2}3{4}168{5}52';
$split = preg_split('#\b(?={)#', $string);
usort($split, function($a, $b) use ($order) {
$a = array_search(preg_replace('#^{(\d+)}\d+$#', '$1', $a), $order);
$b = array_search(preg_replace('#^{(\d+)}\d+$#', '$1', $b), $order);
return $a - $b;
});
$split = implode('', $split);
var_dump($split);
I m having trouble checking if a comma separated string contains another comma separated string.
Suppose I have two strings
$stringA="red,blue,yellow,green,black,grey,purple,pink,khaki,lemon,orange,white,maroon";
$stringB="blue,green,white,pink,maroon";
All I want to check is whether colors in $stringB is contained in $stringA or not?? The only way I could think of is converting $stringA into an array, and checking the colors one by one using in_array function. Is there another easier way around?
Thanks in advance
$stringA="red,blue,yellow,green,black,grey,purple,pink,khaki,lemon,orange,white,maroon";
$stringB="blue,green,white,pink,maroon";
$arrayA = explode(',', $stringA);
$arrayB = explode(',', $stringB);
$min = min(array(
count($arrayA),
count($arrayB),
));
$AcontainsB = ($min == count(array_intersect($arrayA, $arrayB)));
I think comparing arrays is not bad idea, but you can also do something like that:
$stringATmp = ','.$stringA.',';
$colors = explode(',', $stringB);
$contains = true;
foreach ($colors as $color) {
if (strpos($stringATmp, ','.$color.',') === false) {
$contains = false;
break;
}
}
There are ways of doing it that are faster than others, but no ways that are conceptually easier than loading the data into some kind of data structure. Since you are talking about checking a list of items in arbitrary order against another list of items that can be in arbitrary order, there are no shortcuts around getting the reference list (stringA) into a data structure, and then looking up the stringB list in that data structure.
One way to speed it up.
Explode stringA into an array.
array flip the stringA array so that the colors become keys in the array (it does not matter what the values are).
Now you can look up each color from an exploded String B by with code like the following:
Something like this:
$stringAArray = explode(',', $stringA);
$stringAArray = array_flip($stringAArray);
$stringBArray = explode(',',$stringB);
$itemsToFind = count($stringBArray);
foreach ($stringBArray as $colorFromB) {
if (array_key_exists($colorFromB, $stringAArray)) {
$itemsToFind--;
}
}
if ($itemsToFind == 0) {
echo "All B items are in A"
}
This is a very fast lookup and scales well for lots of items in A and B.
Final note: for smallish arrays, doing it via in_array is going to be comparably fast.
Suppose a string:
$str = 'a_b_c';
I want match all possible combination with a, b, c with above. For example:
b_a_c, c_a_b, a_c_b..etc will be give true when compare with above $str.
NOTE:
$str may be random. eg: a_b, k_l_m_n etc
I would split your string into an array, and then compare it to an array of elements to match on.
$originalList = explode('_', 'a_b_c');
$matchList = array('a', 'b', 'c');
$diff = array_diff($matchList, $originalList);
if (!empty($diff)) {
// At least one of the elements in $matchList is not in $originalList
}
Beware of duplicate elements and what not, depending on how your data comes in.
Documentation:
array_diff()
explode()
There is no builtin way to quickly do this. Your task can be accomplished many different ways which will vary on how general they are. You make no mention of null values or checking the formatting of the string, so something like this might work for your purpose:
function all_combos($str,$vals) {
$s=explode("_",$str);
foreach($s as $c) {
if(!in_array($s,$vals)) return false;
}
return true;
}
Call like all_combos("b_c_a",array("a","b","c"));