easier way, part deux

[masonbarge]

After an exhausting week of modularizing a ton of spaghetti code (and watching my page rank plummet to 0 as the entire site started throwing errors), I've finally gotten around to implementing some spacesaving. To-wit (as lawyers say):

There has to be an easier way

Now, I got the code Graham wrote to work just fine (had to substitute str_ireplace for preg_replace but iirc that's faster anyway), but I couldn't get this to work (stripped to bare minimum):

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function formatFoodname() {
    global $food_name;
    global $str;
    include_once ('./t_abbr.php');
    $str=explode(',', $str);
    foreach($str as $v) {
        $abbr=strtok($v, '.');
        $word=strtok('.');
        $food_name = str_ireplace($abbr, $word, $food_name);
    }
}
$food_name='COMPOTE, PNUT, w/STWD, BOILED SEL';
formatFoodname();
echo $food_name; 

The 't_abbr.php' file is just a list of terms in the format -- well, example

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<?php
$str= allpurp.all-purpose,
 appl . apple ,
asprt.aspartame,
bf.beef,;
?>

The tokenization and include appear to be working fine -- echo gets me a nice list of abbreviations and full words. I just can't get the string replacement to work using $abbr and $word as the needle and replacement. I also tried putting them into parallel arrays and still couldn't get the replacement to work, even though I had valid variables.

I tried dozens of variations with single/double quotes, etc. No go.

Anyone know what's wrong?

[jimz]

hmmm.... worked for me, but with str_replace instead of str_ireplace, but that makes it case sensitive

I got it to work with this code:

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<?php

$str= 'COMPOTE. I replace compote!!!,
 appl . apple ,
asprt.aspartame,
bf.beef';

function formatFoodname() {
    global $food_name;
    global $str;
    $str=explode(',', $str);
    foreach($str as $v) {
        $abbr=strtok($v, '.');
        $word=strtok('.');
        $food_name = str_replace($abbr, $word, $food_name);
    }
}
$food_name='COMPOTE, PNUT, w/STWD, BOILED SEL';
formatFoodname();
echo $food_name;

?>

do you have php 5? str_ireplace is php 5 only

other than that... ???

Hope that helps!

[masonbarge]

Originally Posted by jimz

do you have php 5?

yar.
I'll give it another try, thx for the help. It's really more of an academic problem at this point, since I have functional code.

I need case insensitivity to handle case mismatching, since significant chunks of the database are copied from public sources with different case/abbreviation schemes. Feel my pain: we're talking @8000 rows (and growing) ranging in format from "PNT,BLD,W/O NA" to "Boiled peanuts, salt free".

(Actually I am extremely thankful to have them, but there are challenges. I do have a PHP system to expedite hand-entering rows and/or updating fields, but with 80 fields -- also growing -- hand-entering data is an horrendous chore.)

[jimz]

Originally Posted by masonbarge

Feel my pain: we're talking @8000 rows (and growing) ranging in format from "PNT,BLD,W/O NA" to "Boiled peanuts, salt free".

Just reading that hurts...