Read 2nd part: comma delim. form value

[DeZiner]

My shopping cart returns a form field called status to me with a comma delim. value:

<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;status&quot; value=&quot;275394,This transaction has been approved.,Y,404142852&quot;>

Notice however the the "Values" are not in single or double quotes. I need to be able to check for the word "approved" in the string of values and if exists, send an email.

I thought that setting $myvar = array($status) then printing $status[1] would give me the second part. No go.

How can I check for the key word "approved"? DeZiner
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[sleipnir214]

Check out PHP's split() function (

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.split.php)

to take that value and break it into an array. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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[DeZiner]

What Am I doing wrong here? I tried split() before.

$MyStatus = array ($status);
list($MyStatus)= split (",", $finstat, 2);

finstat is returning empty. DeZiner
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[sleipnir214]

I don't know anything about $finstat -- I don't know how you're assigning value(s) to it.

What I had in mind was:

$myarray = split (',', $status);

if (some test on $myarra[1])
{
.
.
.
}


Conversely, if you only need to see whether the string "approved" appears in $status, then use strstr() (

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php)

to find the substring. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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[DRJ478]

About split:
The split() function returns an array.
Your assignment assigns the resulting array to a function result:
list($myArray) = split(',',$finstat);
What you want to do is
$myArray = split(',',$finstat);

Alternate solution:
Use the strstr function to check for the word 'approved':
$needle = 'approved';
if(strstr($haystack,$needle)) {
echo "found it.";
} else {
echo "not found.";
}

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php