Is there any way to get get a small part of data from an array index in php?
For example, I have an array of data like:
Array(
[title] => My title
[description] =>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type
Code: No Promo Code Required Begin: 2014-07-25 00:00:00 Expire: 0000-00-00 00:00:00[link] => http://google.com )
from the above array's description index, i need the part only containing
Code: No Promo Code Required Begin: 2014-07-25 00:00:00 Expire: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Regardless of where ever this part occours in the text data.
$myArray = array(
"title" => "My Title",
"description" => "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type
Code: No Promo Code Required Begin: 2014-07-25 00:00:00 Expire: 0000-00-00 00:00:00",
"link" => "http://www.gopjn.com/t/3-79115-101746-99698"
);
preg_match("/(Code.*Expire:\s\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})/", $myArray["description"], $matches);
echo $matches[1];
If there could be more than one instance of the string that you want to match, and you want to get all of them, use preg_match_all() instead.
It may not be the most direct nor best way (regex would probably be a much better idea). But one way to do it:
$foo = explode('Code:', $myarray['description'], 1);
echo array_pop($foo);
Or perhaps:
$p = stripos($myarray['description'], 'Code:');
$foo = substr($myarray['description'], $p);
echo $foo;