Posted by Rik on 08/06/06 13:53

Miguel Cruz wrote:
> "Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Miguel Cruz wrote:
>>> "Eric Rechter" <erikrechter@solcon.nl> wrote:
>>>> I only want to display the provider name from a hostname, so I need
>>>> to divide the string to take only de characters from after the
>>>> before last dot.
>>>>
>>>> For example:
>>>>
>>>> dsl-083-247-088-130.solcon.nl -> I only wanna display "solcon.nl"
>>>
>>> $hostname = "dsl-083-247-088-130.solcon.nl";
>>> $parts = explode('.', $hostname);
>>> if (count($parts) >= 2)
>>> $provider_name =
>>> $parts[count($parts) - 2] . '.' . $parts[count($parts) - 1];
>>> else
>>> $provider_name = $hostname;
>>
>> Well, if we're going that way:
>> $host = implode('.',array_slice(explode('.',$hostname),-2));
>
> You win this time... but I'll be back!

Hehehe, oneliners are fun to make up, but often a terrible thing in real
code :-). It's usually better to be a bit more verbose to keep the code
legible for future coders. (Even for yourself after a year. I've cursed my
own cryptic code quite often in the past).

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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