Search string parse...

[skiflyer]

Disclaimer... this is me being busy and not having time to tackle this right away so if you don't have something readily available I'll get to it soon and post it here...

I'm looking for a regex to parse a search string google style... right now I'm using

  $words = preg_split('/[\s,]+/', $search_string);

But I'd like to add support for phrases enclosed in quotes..

Thanks,
Rob

 

[skiflyer]

Talk about pushed to the back burner... (I almost couldn't believe the original post date on this)

$keyword_string='some "input from" a form';
$pattern = '/"(.*?)"/';
$phrase_count = preg_match_all($pattern, $keyword_string, $phrase_matches);
array_shift($phrase_matches);
$keywords_remaining=preg_replace($pattern, '', $keyword_string);

You'll be left with alot of whitespace or delimiters in your search string, but that's easy enough to clean up later.

Enjoy.