Thread: An Alternative to array_shift and explode? - Please Help

Hey,

array_shift seems to work on another server, but it does not on mine.

The code is the following;

PHP Code:

$realid = array_shift(explode("-", $id)); 


What I am trying to get done is the following;

I have a URL, which is like [ example.com/48555-animal-name.html ]. How is it possible to ONLY get the ID which is 48555, to call an entry from the database?

PHP Code:

$realid = array_shift(explode("-", $id));
$qryrec="select * from animals where id='$realid'";
$resultrec=mysql_query($qryrec) or die($qryrec);
$linerec=mysql_fetch_array($resultrec);
$pcommon = ucwords($linerec[common]); 


Is there an another way of doing this, without using array_shift?

Thanks,

Your example should work if $id = "48555-animal-name.html" since array_shift is available in PHP 4 and PHP 5.

I suspect that the value stored in $id has something before the id number.

This should work as long as the id is the only part of the url containing numbers:

PHP Code:

$realid = preg_replace('@[^0-9]@', '', $id); 


Great! - Thanks buddy