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kgscott284

Well, I am a front end guy, but I have an interest in everything so i am trying to figure out how to use PHP for some mundane tasks...basically what i want to do is split a list (delimited by a comma) and insert the values of the list into params/attribute in so i only have to copy paste a list once instead of the thousands of urls over and over...Here is where i got stuck:


<form action="" method="post">
  <label>Links Separated By a COMMA</label>
  <textarea name="urls" cols="" rows=""></textarea>
  <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php	
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	$urls = trim($_POST['urls']); 
	$arr = explode(	",", $urls);
	$count= count($arr);
	 
	 // need to loop through the array here...don't know how...i was thinking a for or while loop..??
        echo '<a href="' . thearrayitem[0] . '>' . thearrayitem[0] . '</a>';
}
?>

// It should output something like:

<a href="http://www.link1.com">http://www.link1.com</a&gt;
<a href="http://www.link2.com">http://www.link2.com</a&gt;
<a href="http://www.link3.com">http://www.link3.com</a&gt;

Except "thearrayitem[0]" should be the index as a variable so it can iterate through the items...
Any help would be much appreciated thanks gin advance!

Johnnyb

I'm not really a PHP guy either, but to loop through the array wouldn't it be something like this:


for ($i = 0; $i <= count(thearrayitem); $i++) {
    echo '<a href="' . thearrayitem[i] . '>' . thearrayitem[i] . '</a>';
}

kgscott284

Yes, for some reason I just mixed up the syntax. Thanks a lot @johnnyb

kgscott284

Ok, still not working for some reason...

this is what i have now...im getting an undefined offset error, but $i should be set....unless my loop is failing???


<form action="" method="post">
  <label>Links Separated By a COMMA</label>
  <textarea name="urls" cols="" rows=""></textarea>
  <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php	
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	$urls = trim($_POST['urls']); 
	$arr = explode(	",", $urls);
	$count = count($arr);
	for ($i = 0; $i <= $count; $i++) {
    echo '<a href="' . $arr[$i] . '>' . $arr[$i] . '</a>';
	}
}
?>

kgscott284

Here is the solution in case any other noobs run into the issue...

Instead of trying to use the index, simply use a foreach loop and use the value like so:


if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	$urls = trim($_POST['urls']); 
	$arr = explode(	",", $urls);
	foreach ($arr as $link) {
    echo '<a href="' . $link . '>' . $link . '</a>';
	}
}
?>

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