I worked a little while back on a function to create some list-item links by passing something like :
_li('href=home.php&text=Home&target=_blank');
and return them as variables:
$href = 'home.php',
$text = 'Home',
$target = 'blank'
I had gotten the idea from some wordpress function I had been using that allowed me to pass variables in a similar way; unsuccessful in finding out how they did it, I started researching and came up with this function. It has been revised a couple of times and more recently I had added the extract() function which takes an array and creates variables using the key value as the name of the variable ($name) and setting the value within the same array variable.
This function can do much more than parsing variables for links and I figured I would share it with anyone who wants can benefit from it. I would also love input on anyway to make this function better/’more-correct’.
function parse($args){
$args = explode('&', $args);
$c = 0;
foreach($args as $v){
$i = explode('=', $v);
$newArgs[$c][$i[0]] = $i[1];
++$c;
}
unset($args);
foreach($newArgs as $v){
foreach($v as $kk => $vv){
$args[$kk] = $vv;
}
}
return $args;
}
// usage
$parse = parse('text=Home&href=/home.php&target=_blank');
extract($parse);
echo '<', 'a href="', $href, '" target="', $target, '">', $text,'</a', '>';
you can also return $newArgs for an array:
Array([text] => 'Home', [href] => '/home.php', [target] => '_blank')
edit the code for your own, make it awesome.
php.net extract() documentation
Also, here’s a great site for practicing php online.
