[timmerk]

I'm trying to write some php to take this:

Code:
<param name="movie" value="lookupSong.swf?s=Start+Wearing+Purple&n=Gogol+Bordello&t=2%3A10+AM&img=http%3A%2F%2F206.165.114.205%2Fjellyvision%2Fimages%2Fpop%2Fcov75%2Fdrf200%2Ff202%2Ff202950ofan.jpg&itid=&ital=" />

And spit out the value of the s, n, and t variables without the +'s and other entities. There are multiple blocks of code like this in the document I am working with, so it needs to get those values for each one.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[madmacgames]

how about grabbing the value of value="" and parsing it as a url, then parse the query string.

I tested this on PHP 5, but it should also work on PHP 4 if that is what you're running.

Code:
MadMac-Computer% /usr/local/php5/bin/php -a
Interactive mode enabled

php > // string
php > $string = '<param name="movie" value="lookupSong.swf?s=Start+Wearing+Purple&n=Gogol+Bordello&t=2%3A10+AM&img=http%3A%2F%2F206.165.114.205%2Fjellyvision%2Fimages%2Fpop%2Fcov75%2Fdrf200%2Ff202%2Ff202950ofan.jpg&itid=&ital=" />';
php > 
php > // PCRE pattern
php > $pattern = '/<param name="([^"]+)" value="([^"]+)" \/>/';
php > 
php > // find matches
php > preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);
php > 
php > // debug matches
php > print_r($matches);
Array
(
	[0] => <param name="movie" value="lookupSong.swf?s=Start+Wearing+Purple&n=Gogol+Bordello&t=2%3A10+AM&img=http%3A%2F%2F206.165.114.205%2Fjellyvision%2Fimages%2Fpop%2Fcov75%2Fdrf200%2Ff202%2Ff202950ofan.jpg&itid=&ital=" />
	[1] => movie
	[2] => lookupSong.swf?s=Start+Wearing+Purple&n=Gogol+Bordello&t=2%3A10+AM&img=http%3A%2F%2F206.165.114.205%2Fjellyvision%2Fimages%2Fpop%2Fcov75%2Fdrf200%2Ff202%2Ff202950ofan.jpg&itid=&ital=
)
php >
php > // parse value="?" url
php > $url = parse_url($matches[2]);
php > 
php > // debug $url
php > print_r($url);
Array
(
	[path] => lookupSong.swf
	[query] => s=Start+Wearing+Purple&n=Gogol+Bordello&t=2%3A10+AM&img=http%3A%2F%2F206.165.114.205%2Fjellyvision%2Fimages%2Fpop%2Fcov75%2Fdrf200%2Ff202%2Ff202950ofan.jpg&itid=&ital=
)
php > 
php > // parse query string
php > parse_str($url['query'], $results);
php > 
php > // debug results
php > print_r($results);
Array
(
	[s] => Start Wearing Purple
	[n] => Gogol Bordello
	[t] => 2:10 AM
	[img] => http://206.165.114.205/jellyvision/images/pop/cov75/drf200/f202/f202950ofan.jpg
	[itid] => 
	[ital] => 
)
php >

Something like that should do the trick. You could easily make it into a function or class that you give the string to and it returns the final result array. To get all of them, you could do a preg_match_all() instead of preg_match and loop through the results.

PS. PHP 5 interactive console rocks

[timmerk]

Thanks!