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I don't understand why are you replacing the command and explode is still confusing. I went to tizag and w3schools and still don't undersrand how to use explode.

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Explode is this. Say you have uh

"Hello-blah"

and you want hello and blah separate strings so explode would break that string into 2 parts by the - like this

$example = explode("-","Hello-blah");

Now the first part is saying hey I want to get rid of that - and make the everything before it 1 string and everything after another. So now $example[0] = "Hello" and $example[1] = "blah"

Get that part?

Then you are replacing the /ban or whatever because you want to check to see if it was that command or not and it also makes it easier to use such as for 1 work commands all you gotta do is just query the rest of the string into your database which saves you time later and for 2 or more word commands use explode() to separate the string but not replacing it because you still need both parts

Get it?

Also explode('-','Hello-blah-meh',1)

Makes it so that is once it separate the first word it will stop and then the second c part will be what's next in this case it would be blah-meh

Sigh...

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Ok, I now understand explode, just not why you replace.

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lol you replace because of this so lets say your command is "/ban drago I hate you" and you just need to explode the name and the reason and not the command so you just replace out the /ban because you don't even need it

So can't you just use explode? I do this:

$explode=explode(" ",$msg,3);
if($explode[0]=="/ban")
{
mysql_query("UPDATE users SET banned='Yes',reason='$explode[2]' WHERE username='$explode[1]'");
}

The username is $explode[1] and the reason is $explode[2].

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Well yes but replacing it is easier but both works

Oh ok, cool.

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Have fun lol

What I'm doing is:
if(substr($yourpostvar, 0, 4) == '/ban' && $_SESSION['admin'] == '1'){
$arr = explode("/", $yourpostvar);
$qs = "INSERT INTO bans (user, reason) VALUES('".$arr[2]."', '".$arr[3]."')";
$q = mysql_query($qs) or die(mysql_error());
}

This code would let you ban a user by typing a command like this: /ban/USER/REASON
Change $yourpostvar obviously. If you want a different command, simply change the substr($yourpostvar, 0, 4) == '/ban' part. Change the 4 with the number of characters your new command would take with the first chunk, ie. /away is 5 characters, /pm is 3 characters, and so on.

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