match text in a string

Can you please post some test data?  We do not have the credentials to use the script posted here, but if you give us the test data and show us what you want to get for output, we should be able to help.  Best, ~Ray

Your regex has me a little confused...

/office\s*:\s*1/  - Why the \s*?

If you are searching the string for 'office:' and that is likely to always be a fixed value, and the number after it will only be a 0 or a 1, then why not have your regex be more like this?

/office:[0|1]/

This will ONLY match when the word office, a semi-colon and a 0 or 1 is detected.

Also, in your preg_match, you need only to have $matches and not the [0]. Any matches that it does find will auto populate the $matches array, from which you can then test against the array values.

Additionally, once you have a match, you should extract just the last character from the match and use it in an immediate if to assign the 'off'.

Hope this helped. :)

~A~

<?php
 ...
 preg_match("/office:[0|1]/", $dbentries, $matches);
 if($matches[0]) {
   $result = ($val == '0') ? " is Off" : " to Office $val";
   $strout = "Diversion $result";
   ...drop $strout into your to html now
 }
?>
 
# WORKING EXAMPLE
<?php
 $val = "office:0";
 preg_match("/office:[0|1]/", $val, $matches);
 print "<pre>";
 print_r($matches);
 print "</pre>";
 
 $val = substr($matches[0], -1, strlen($matches[0]) - 1);
 $result = ($val == '0') ? " is Off" : " to Office $val";
 print "Diversion $result";
?>

                                              

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Thanks for the help and information on regex I have not used regex much and learning php. I will try out what you have suggested.

The goal of the project is to see if office phones are diverted, where to and the ability to divert them remotely all from a webrowser. All systems are Asterisk running on Linux www.asterisk.org. Asterisk has an inbuilt database that can be accessed from the dial plan so it is easy to control what should happen to calls.

There are many offices and originally I was setting the value in the Asterisk database by the first three letters of the office location and matching bri, mar, gol etc. I though it would make it easer to read in the asterisk dial plan and php instead of looking at a numeric value, thats why I was using it that way but the value can be numeric.

Before I read your post I had managed to get it working (see attached code) with a lot of if statements (and will need to add more for the others offices). I am sure there is a more efficient way to do. I tried PHP Switch Statement but due to my inexperience I was unable to get it working.

I would be interested it you thoughts.

Thanks

<?php
 //DStatus
 $socket = fsockopen($manager_host,"5038", $errno, $errstr); 
 fputs($socket, "Action: Login\r\n"); 
 fputs($socket, "UserName: $manager_user\r\n"); 
 fputs($socket, "Secret: $manager_secret\r\n\r\n"); 
 fputs($socket, "Action: Command\r\n"); 
 fputs($socket, "Command: database showkey divert/office\r\n\r\n");
 fputs($socket, "Action: Logoff\r\n\r\n"); // logoff
 
$dbentries=""; //initialise variable
 
 while (!feof($socket)) {
$dbentries .= fread($socket, 8192); 
 }
fclose($socket); // close the socket
 
if (preg_match("/office\s*:\s*0/", $dbentries)) {
echo '<table border="0" width="140" id="table1" cellspacing="0" echo cellpadding="0" height="20">';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td width="21" bgcolor="#FF0000">&nbsp;</td>';
echo '<td><font face="Arial" size="2">&nbsp;Diversion Off 0</font></td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
} 
else
{
}
if (preg_match("/office\s*:\s*1/", $dbentries)){
echo '<table border="0" width="140" id="table1" cellspacing="0" echo cellpadding="0" height="20">';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td width="21" bgcolor="#00FF00">&nbsp;</td>';
echo '<td><font face="Arial" size="2">&nbsp;Diverted to 1</font></td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
}
if (preg_match("/office\s*:\s*2/", $dbentries)) {
echo '<table border="0" width="140" id="table1" cellspacing="0" echo cellpadding="0" height="20">';
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td width="21" bgcolor="#00FF00">&nbsp;</td>';
echo '<td><font face="Arial" size="2">&nbsp;Diverted to 2</font></td>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</table>';
} 
else
{
}
 
?>

                                              

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I urge you to examine the code I sent you.
It is performing exactly as desired, then extracts the office number.
It also will create the text, 'Diversion is off" if the number equals zero and if greater than zero, will display "Dieverted to office n", where 'n' is the office number pulled out of the regex match.

No need for a switch or endless list of ifs. If you use the code I provided, it will work for any number of offices.

~A~

<?php
 ...
 preg_match("/office:[0|1]/", $dbentries, $matches);
 if($matches[0]) {
   $result = ($val == '0') ? " is Off" : " to Office $val";
   $strout = "Diversion $result";
   print "<table border=\"0\" width=\"140\" id=\"table1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" height=\"20\">\n";
   print "  <tr>\n";
   print "    <td width=\"21\" bgcolor=\"#00FF00\"> </td>\n";
   print "    <td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">$strout</font></td>\n";
   print "  </tr>\n";
   print "</table>\n";
 }
?>

                                              

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Hi, I agree your code is better and I can see where you are going with it. I will read through your code and get an understanding how it works.

I tried it but I get this error.

PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  0 in /var/www/html/DStatus.php on line 25
Line 25  if($matches[0]) {

Thanks

Hi just two notes.

1. There is a space between; office"SPACE":"SPACE"0

2. If we use the value as the final output I would need to use a word like the office location not a number.

"Diverted to Sydney"

I can use a word in the asterisk db.

Thanks