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[Kafu]

Hi, I'm fairly new to PHP.

I have just built a MySQL table collecting garden centres names and addresses and I want to be put them online. I can do all of this but I a having a re-occuring problem.

When ever I display an address I use the following:

echo "$store_name, $address_1, $address_2, $city, $post_code.";

But if there are areas of the address missing, for instance the postcode, I get this as an echo:

"Flowers Garden Centre, 1 Berkley street, , , ."

If there any way I can get rid or hide those ',' or fullstop symbols.

Kafu.

[jamesmiddz]

There are lots of ways in which this can be done with PHP. I will show you one method that I used recently within a content management system that I built.

<?php
$address = ""; ///This establishes a blank string

if($store_name)
{
$address .= "$store_name, "; ///This adds the conditional content of '$store_name' to the string
}
if($address_1)
{
$address .= "$address_1, ";
}
if($address_2)
{
$address .= "$address_2, ";
}
if($city)
{
$address .= "$city, ";
}
if($post_code)
{
$address .= "$post_code, ";
}

$address = substr($address, 0, strlen($address)-2); ///Trim end of ', ' (2 characters)

echo "$address.";

?>

Now some might say there are quicker ways of doing this, and ofcourse there are. But this is a simple approach for a beginner and demostrates some very useful string handling including 'if' conditional statements and 'substr' string trimmer.

All the best, jamesmiddz

[Kafu]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have tried the PHP code out and now it works perfectly!

Thanks Jamesmidds


Kafu