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Could anyone suggest how to make a $category_short with +-signs between white spaces?
John
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Re: [gotze] Category name with + In reply to
Not sure where/why you would want to do it?

Could be done with a simple global;

Code:
sub { my $tmp = $_[0]; $tmp =~ s/ /+/g; return $tmp; }

You would pass in the URL string with;

Code:
<%global_name($category_short)%>

Hope that helps.

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Andy,

The sub you propose looks very much like a perl code. This is posted in the php forum :-)

I want to use the global in category pages. I included search results from Amazon (via web service), and they want white spaces replaced with plus-signs.

John
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Ah, sorry :(

You could try;

<? $var = $category_short; echo preg_replace('\s', '\+', $var); ?>

... in the category.html template (PHP).

Untested, but should work :)

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Andy: Aug 18, 2004, 1:24 AM
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Thanks for helping. I've tried this, but can't get it to do anything.
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Mmm.. been a while since I played with PHP :(

Hows it work now? (using \s and \+)

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Re: [Andy] Category name with + In reply to
This works:

<?php
$string = $category_short;
$pattern[0] = "/ /";
$replacement[2] = "+";
$plustext = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
?>

This takes $category_short, e.g., "Gossamer Threads" and creates $plustext, which would be "Gossamer+Threads".
This is for example useful when integrating Amazon web services into your categories.

Thanks Andy, for helping out.

John
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Hi. Not sure what the 3rd line is all about? (its defined as an array, yet you put it in with preg_replace() as a string Crazy).

This should do the trick (little smaller too);

Code:
<?php
$string = $category_short;
$string = preg_replace(' ', '+', $string);
?>

I think the reason my first example of code wasn't working, is because I was using "\s" instead of just " " :(

Hope that helps.

Cheers

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Re: [Andy] Category name with + In reply to
When you use preg_replace you have to have the // for perl compatible regular expressions.

so instead of:

preg_replace("\s", "\+", $string);

It would be:

preg_replace("/\s/", "\+", $string);

However, for a simple replace like that str_replace would be faster:

str_replace("[[:space:]]", "\+", $string);

Hope this helps,

- Jonathan
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Ah, I knew it was something like that (I'm used to using a couple of other regex routines, which only need to be quoted). Thanks for clearing that up though :)

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