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[PaulGrimshaw]

Hi,

Is it possible in php to split a sentance into different words and then add some html to before/after each word?

e.g. I have the following text in a variable:

"Acrylic Flower Vase Block Square"

I want to break the sentance into its component words, e.g.

Acrylic
Flower
Vase
Block
Square

I want to then wrap a <a> around them linking to the search script so that each one can be searched on.

any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul.

[NormanRouxel]

Look in the Advanced guide for the article on truncating the product description after 10 words. That'll give you some ideas.

[PaulGrimshaw]

thanks norman, worked great. for anyone else searching:

<actinic:block php="true" >
$sShort = "";
$sOriginal = '<actinic:variable name="Prod_All_Keywords" />'; 
foreach(explode(" ", $sOriginal) as $sWord)
{
$sShort .= " <a href='http://www.madmash.com/cgi-bin/ss002207.pl?page=search&SS=" .  sWord . "&PR=-1&TB=A'>" . $sWord . "</a> ";
}
echo $sShort;
</actinic:block>

Prod_All_keywords is my list of search terms...

thanks,
Paul.

[NormanRouxel]

I'd change

$sOriginal = '<actinic:variable name="Prod_All_Keywords" />';

to

$sOriginal = '<actinic:variable name="Prod_All_Keywords" encoding="perl" />';

just in case there's ever any single quotes in your keywords.

[PaulGrimshaw]

updated. thanks for the advice.

Paul.