note 61836 added to function.substr

a function to read in a file and split the string into its individual characters and display them as images for a webcounter. can be used anywhere you need to split a string where a seperator is not present and versions where the str_split() function is also not present. <?php //start counter $filename = "counter_file.txt"; $pathtoiamges = "http://www.yoursite.com/counter/";//where is your iamges $extension = ".gif";//what filetype are your images in //--------------do not change below this line------------------- $counter=file_get_contents($filename); $counter++; $count=$counter; $current=0; $visit=array("");//array to hold individual characters //split string into individual characters //same as str_split($str) in PHP5 while (strlen($count)>0) { $current++; $visit[$current]=substr($count,0,1);//get current digit $count=substr($count,1,strlen($count));//reduce number string to remove last stored digit } //display images of digits foreach ($visit as $vis) { if ($vis!=""){echo "<img src=\"". $pathtoimages . $vis . .$extension . "\">";} } $list = fopen($filename, "w+"); fwrite($list, $counter); fclose($list); //end counter ?> requires a file to store the counter and 10 images to represent the digits (0-9) if used as a counter. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 71.71.72.4 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61836 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61836&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61836&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php