On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 09:48 -0700, Kevin Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to create an advanced search feature for my site, and I
> have it mostly working the way I want. I take whatever search term
> ($searchkey) that the user submits, explodes if off any spaces
> between words, and then use that to search for each word separately.
>
> $keys = explode(" ",$searchkey);
>
> So the search phrase of:
>
> Dog Cat Horse
>
> would output :
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Dog
> [1] => Cat
> [2] => Horse
> )
>
> However, I would like to add the ability to have phrases in there
> indicated by " marks. So, if the search phrase was this:
>
> "Dog Cat" Horse
>
> It would output:
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Dog Cat
> [1] => Horse
> )
>
> My concept to solve this is right before I explode the keys as above,
> to replace any spaces within " marks with a garbage string of
> characters (say XXXXXXXXXX) using a regular expression, and then
> later replace it back with a space. However, I suck at regular
> expressions and can't figure it out.
>
> Anyone have a way for me to accomplish this with a regular expression
> or with another method?
<?php
$foo = '"dog cat" horse mouse "tiger fish"';
if( preg_match_all( '/[[:space:]]+(("[^"]*")|([^[:space:]]+))/', '
'.$foo, $bits ) )
{
print_r( $bits );
}
?>
Cheers,
Rob.
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