Creating a menu from array in PHP

Question

I have got the following pulled from an array.

[TheBeautifulSouth/2-15 One Last Love Song.m4a] => Array
    (
        [name] => TheBeautifulSouth/2-15 One Last Love Song.m4a
        [time] => 1296612503
        [size] => 7628998
        [hash] => 4c6d9b19310ad53efccc5df2e0632e82
    )

[TheBeautifulSouth/2-16 Mirror.m4a] => Array
    (
        [name] => TheBeautifulSouth/2-16 Mirror.m4a
        [time] => 1296612568
        [size] => 8418448
        [hash] => ef371e227b410bb4c9ed1ff7f2d0d70e
    )

[TheBeautifulSouth/2-17 One God.m4a] => Array
    (
        [name] => TheBeautifulSouth/2-17 One God.m4a
        [time] => 1296612639
        [size] => 8619393
        [hash] => 80f29fbef6f469e3f150f7011a320987
    )

[TheBeautifulSouth/2-18 Blackbird On the Wire (Radio Ed.m4a] => Array
    (
        [name] => TheBeautifulSouth/2-18 Blackbird On the Wire (Radio Ed.m4a
        [time] => 1296612712
        [size] => 6776214
        [hash] => fe13ced4b9fc26b013c241219c642095
    )

[dnb/] => Array
    (
        [name] => Music/dnb/
        [time] => 1296576896
        [size] => 0
        [hash] => d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
    )

[dnb/03 Twerk feat. Yo Majesty (Sub Focus Remix).mp3] => Array
    (
        [name] => dnb/03 Twerk feat. Yo Majesty (Sub Focus Remix).mp3
        [time] => 1296577218
        [size] => 11782889
        [hash] => 372e32ad1aff44061b65f5a76e7e805c
    )

[Music/dnb/21st Century (Feat. Cabbie)_Tantrum Desire_192.mp3] => Array
    (
        [name] => dnb/21st Century (Feat. Cabbie)_Tantrum Desire_192.mp3
        [time] => 1296577357
        [size] => 8260946
        [hash] => 7fda7e838192f5c362f71ffff300a8c3
    )

[dnb/Abort_Delta Heavy_192.mp3] => Array
    (
        [name] => dnb/Abort_Delta Heavy_192.mp3
        [time] => 1296577451
        [size] => 8080602
        [hash] => bb71d713fd77746cd7debb39407ba88f
    )

here is the output.

    TheBeautifulSouth/2-15 One Last Love Song.m4anum2
    TheBeautifulSouth/2-16 Mirror.m4anum2
    TheBeautifulSouth/2-17 One God.m4anum2
    TheBeautifulSouth/2-18 Blackbird On the Wire (Radio Ed.m4anum2
    dnb/03 Twerk feat. Yo Majesty (Sub Focus Remix).mp3num2
    dnb/21st Century (Feat. Cabbie)_Tantrum Desire_192.mp3num2
    dnb/Better Place_Dub Zero_192.mp3num2
    dnb/Body_Shot_Tantrum_Desire_192.mp3num2

I am trying to put this into a menu structure as follows.

<ul>
<li>
    <ul>
        TheBeautifulSouth
        <li>2-15 One Last Love Song.m4anum2</li>
        <li>2-16 Mirror.m4anum2</li>
        <li>2-17 One God.m4anum2</li>
        <li>2-18 Blackbird On the Wire (Radio Ed.m4anum2</li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li>
    <ul>
        dnb
        <li>03 Twerk feat. Yo Majesty (Sub Focus Remix).mp3num2</li>
        <li>21st Century (Feat. Cabbie)_Tantrum Desire_192.mp3num2</li>
        <li>Better Place_Dub Zero_192.mp3num2</li>
        <li>Body_Shot_Tantrum_Desire_192.mp3num2</li>
    </ul>
</li>

I am trying to use the php function strstr but can't figure it out. Here is my code:

 <ul>
        <li>list
            <ul>
                <?php foreach ($bucket_contents as $file){ 

       $fname = $file['name'];

       $list = strstr($fname, '/', true); ?>
                <li><?php echo $list; ?></li>
                <?php  } ?>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>

Have you tried escaping the '/' character? Like this: '\/'. Other than that I can't see anyting that would cause a problem. — Midas
– Midas, Commented May 18, 2011 at 16:29

jeroen · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18 16:32:00Z

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If your variables have the values they should have (try a var_dump), the only problem I can see, is your php version. Are you sure your server is running php 5.3?

Note that the third parameter in strstr is only available in php 5.3.

answered May 18, 2011 at 16:32

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Hanan · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18 16:39:53Z

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by using strstr($fname, '/', true);

you're actually telling php to return everything before the character "/". if you drop the "true", you'll receive everything from, including the "/" character.

you can do something like

$list = substr($fname, strpos($fname, "/") +1);

edited May 18, 2011 at 16:39

answered May 18, 2011 at 16:32

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