Take a part of a string (PHP) - php

Question

We are trying to get certain parts of a String.
We have the string:
location:32:DaD+LoC:102AD:Ammount:294
And we would like to put the information in different strings. For example $location=32 and $Dad+Loc=102AD
The values vary per string but it will always have this construction:
location:{number}:DaD+LoC:{code}:Ammount:{number}
So... how do we get those values?

Answer 1

That would produce what you want, but for example $dad+Loc is an invalid variable name in PHP so it wont work the way you want it, better work with an array or an stdClass Object instead of single variables.
$string = "location:32:DaD+LoC:102AD:Ammount:294";
$stringParts = explode(":",$string);
$variableHolder = array();
for($i = 0;$i <= count($stringParts);$i = $i+2){
${$stringParts[$i]} = $stringParts[$i+1];
}
var_dump($location,$DaD+LoC,$Ammount);

Answer 2

Easy fast forward approach:
$string = "location:32:DaD+LoC:102AD:Ammount:294";
$arr = explode(":",$string);
$location= $arr[1];
$DaD_LoC= $arr[3];
$Ammount= $arr[5];

Answer 3

$StringArray = explode ( ":" , $string)

Answer 4

By using preg_split and mapping the resulting array into an associative one.
Like this:
$str = 'location:32:DaD+LoC:102AD:Ammount:294';
$list = preg_split('/:/', $str);
$result = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($list); $i = $i+2) {
$result[$array[$i]] = $array[$i+1];
};
print_r($result);

Answer 5

it seems nobody can do it properly
$string = "location:32:DaD+LoC:102AD:Ammount:294";
list(,$location,, $dadloc,,$amount) = explode(':', $string);

Answer 6

the php function split is deprecated so instead of this it is recommended to use preg_split or explode.
very useful in this case is the function list():
list($location, $Dad_Loc, $ammount) = explode(':', $string);
EDIT:
my code has an error:
list(,$location,, $Dad_Loc,, $ammount) = explode(':', $string);