a function from VB to PHP[solved]

[kill_bill_gates]

yes
can you do it in PHP?

[visualAd]

Done:

    function between($start, $end, $string)
    {
        $pos1 = strpos($string, $start) + strlen($start);
        $pos2 = strpos($string, $end) - 1;

        return substr($string, $pos1, $pos2 - $pos1 + 1);
    } 

I'll let you decide its behviour if one or both the search strings are not found.

[kill_bill_gates]

wow thanks.
I'm kind of a newbie in PHP, can you explain the functions you used?

[visualAd]

strpos = (VB) InStr - it returns the index (0 based) of the first occurence of the search string.

substr = (VB) Mid - which returns a portion of a stirng, given a start position and the length all be it more powerful than VB's Mid function.

The strpos function returns false if it cannot find a string so to set that you would need to use if($pos1 === false).

[thegreatone]

Bill Gates killer, that is in PHP... just add the
<?
?>

tags to it...

[kill_bill_gates]

thanks VisualAd

Bill Gates killer, that is in PHP... just add the
<?
?>

tags to it...

what did you mean by that ? I know that's PHP.