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PHP

Posted by don bencilao
don bencilao
4,153 Points

php strpos, stripos, strpos, substr

I want to search a string for all the words with #. and then display the whole word along with the #. I'm looking at some php built in functions but I don't know where to begin and how to put them together.

ex.

I love the fault in our stars book! this is now my #favourite #book. It's better than the #movie.

I want to collect #favourite, #book and #movie and display them.

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Don,

I haven't learned about regular expressions yet so I can't give you an answer of my own but I'll try to point you in the right direction.

I think that you want to be looking at preg_match_all and a regular expression for the pattern you have.

This stackoverflow question may be a suitable answer for you or at least get you off in the right direction: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19976571/get-hashtag-from-string-and-get-into-meta-keywords-and-tags

don bencilao
don bencilao
4,153 Points

nice! it worked man! thanks!