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Topic: echo and commas
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zcrar70 Member
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posted July 13, 2000 10:34 AM
hi,another slightly stupid question that i'm not sure how to fix: I am writing a metatag generator, for which i get the info from a database. The code is: $brandmetatag = new DBconnect; $query = "select item_name from dbtable where item_name like '%'"; $brandmetatag-> dbquery($query); while ($brandmetatag->next_record()): $i = 0; $j = sizeof($brandmetatag->Record); while ($i < $j) { echo $brandmetatag->Record[$i], ", "; $i++;} endwhile; For some reason, I always get two commas in a row printed out after each Record. When I leave a space this comes out fine, as does leaving no separation. Any ideas why this is or how to get around it ?
cheers, -nick |
SepodatiCreations Member
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posted July 13, 2000 09:11 PM
not sure if this is the problem, but php uses a period to join strings together. it looked like you were trying to use a comma i.e. javascript.echo "Hello" . " World"; echo $brandmetatag->Record[$i] . ", "; ---John Holmes... |
zcrar70 Member
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posted July 14, 2000 06:01 AM
unfortunately that musn't be it, cos i stil get the same result, namely two commas in a row separated by a space. Actually according to the php manual i think you can use the comma with echo to print a series of things, as in:echo "foo", $bar; but anyways, does anyone know how to get rid of this ? Could it be a bug or something ? Although apparently finding bugs is quite unlikely.... -nick |
SepodatiCreations Member
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posted July 14, 2000 06:24 AM
Are you just tring to join all of the array elements into a comma seperated string? how about using implode? one command will join the entire array for you.$string = implode(", ",$array); if you needed to get your array back, you could use explode(", ",$string); it seems like this would be easier than going through a loop and joining them... ---John Holmes... |