note 55836 deleted from function.preg-split by mazzanet

Note Submitter: phphile at no-email dot com/sorry ---- im currentl working on a wap portal, trying to use all sorts of php to seperate and neatly disply phone makes and models [and version numbers!] but keep getting stuck, here's my script for nokia: // we start by asking for the user agent $user_agent = $HTTP_USER_AGENT; // now i use a function to change the numbers, i.e. 6230, 3330, to X. function trim_nok($string) { $string = trim($string); $string = ereg_replace("1","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("2","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("3","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("4","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("5","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("6","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("7","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("8","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("9","x",$string); $string = ereg_replace("0","x",$string); $string = trim($string); return $string; } // next, i'll shave it down to 9 characters long. $differ = substr($user_agent,0,9); // trim it to turn numbers to x's with our function above $trimming = trim_nok("$differ"); // is it a nokia? if ($trimming == "Nokiaxxxx") { if (preg_match ("/Nokia/i", "$user_agent.")) $nokia = "Nokia"; // select matching numbers, end up with a long string function nokinums($string) { preg_match_all('/(?:([0-9]+)|.)/i', $string, $matches); return strtolower(implode('', $matches[1])); } // run it through $modelnokia = nokinums("$user_agent"); // slice it down to 4 characters $modelnokia = substr($modelnokia,0,4); // if we know it's "Nokiaxxxx" then we know (well i know) that i can cut from the fourteenth character of the entire user_agent string and take out 8 characters after the 14... $ver_nokia = substr($user_agent,14,8); // trim off those brackets... function trim_ver($string) { $string = ltrim($string); $string = ereg_replace(")",".",$string); $string = ereg_replace("\(","v",$string); $string = trim($string); return $string; } // run the last one through $vers = trim_ver("$ver_nokia"); // display it. $nokia_display = "$nokia $modelnokia $vers"; } it SUCKS man! im stuck, samsung D500s and E330s, yes i can get numbers with the above methods but not letters! someone help, please?