Advanced PHP Question

[cngodles]

Hello,

I'm not good at stepping slowly through data and matching strings, etc. I've created a PHP engine where I type a code such as flashkit.allrows and coding takes that and replaces it with a database result set. This allows users to request database data without having to know advanced code.

I want to take it one step further. Say I want them to type flashkit.company[2], where the code would grab the company information from the database with ID # 2.

So I need to:

Find flashkit.company[IDHERE]
Somehow extract the IDHERE part and use that data to query the database.

I can figure out the rest.

Thanks ahead of time!
Clint

[cngodles]

Answered my own question, for those who might be interested:

<?
$string = 'Happy birthday [fkf.partner]1463[END fkf.partner] happy go lucky!';
$first = strpos($string, '[fkf.partner]') + 13;
$second = strpos($string, '[END fkf.partner]');
$totallength = $second - $first;
$extractednumber = substr($string, $first, $totallength);
?>
<?= $first ?>
<br><?= $second ?>
<br><?= $extractednumber ?>