PHP Syntax Inquiry - Quotes Module

[spencermitchell]

Hello,

I am attempting to change the way the file name for the generated PDF quote is written. I have made most of the changes, but I am stuck on one thing. Here is an example of how it currently is:

Quotation_12345-CustomerOfficeABC.pdf

I would like to know the syntax that would be needed to create spaces in the company name. For example:

Quotation_12345-Customer Office ABC.pdf

Here is what my syntax looks like in standard.php:

 $GLOBALS['log']->info("Quote layout view: Standard");
$quotesub = preg_replace("#[^A-Z0-9\-_\.]#i","", $focus->name);
$filename = ($focus->quote_num);
if (!empty($quotesub)) {
    $filename .= "-{$quotesub}";
}
$filename = $mod_strings['LBL_PROPOSAL']. "_{$filename}.pdf"; 
  

I have tried backslash characters in the preg_replace function, but to no avail.:

 $quotesub = preg_replace("#[^A-Z0-9\-_\.]#i","(something goes here)", $focus->name); 
  

Nothing I do works. If I just leave a space between the parenthesis it only shows the first word in the customer name and drops the rest and the file extension. I know this is probably really simple, so any help on how to do this would be great. Thanks!

[johanw]

I dont really understand your question.

Do you have a problem with the regular expression?

to replace everything that doesn't match spaces, letters and dots and - characters you should have something like this.

 $quotesub = preg_replace("#[^\w\s-\.]#","", $focus->name); 
  

[spencermitchell]

I guess I just need to know what character represents a space in text. For example, if I write the expression as:

 $quotesub = preg_replace("#[^\w\s-\.]#"," ", $focus->name); 
  

Then file name is "Quotation_12345-General"

I need it to be "Quotation_12345-General Motors headers.pdf"

Notice that the first file name is half missing. Only the first word in the quote subject shows up. Everything after that doesn't show up. If I remove the preg_replace from the expression then it still does the same thing. Does this explanation help explain what I'm trying to do?

[johanw]

I guess I just need to know what character represents a space in text. For example, if I write the expression as:

 $quotesub = preg_replace("#[^\w\s-\.]#"," ", $focus->name); 
  

Then file name is "Quotation_12345-General"

I need it to be "Quotation_12345-General Motors headers.pdf"

Notice that the first file name is half missing. Only the first word in the quote subject shows up. Everything after that doesn't show up. If I remove the preg_replace from the expression then it still does the same thing. Does this explanation help explain what I'm trying to do?

When i run the code only letters, whitespaces and dots are keept.

\w = word charachter
\s = whitespace character

reg exp quick reference.
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-shee...s-cheat-sheet/

[goko]

Hi spencermitchell

It's not clear what you want to accomplish exactly.

Your first example gave me the impression that you wanted to transform all occurrances of a lower case letter immediately followed by an upper case letter with lower case letter + space + upper case letter
but then you have an example and says:

I need it to be "Quotation_12345-General Motors headers.pdf"

It's not clear what you had from the beginning there...

To solve the first you can try this:

 $s = "Quotation_12345-CustomerOfficeABC.pdf";

echo "$s\n";

$pattern='/([a-z])([A-Z])/';
$repl = '$1 $2';
$s_with_added_spaces = preg_replace($pattern,$repl, $s);

echo "$s_with_added_spaces\n"; 
  

[spencermitchell]

Goran,

Sorry I am being so confusing. I think I am explaining my issue in a way that is making things harder. All I want to do is have the file name read as follows:

"quotation"_"quote number"-"quote subject".pdf

In other words, I want the file name to read, "Quotation" followed by an underscore (_), followed by the quote number, followed by a dash (-), followed by the quote subject (i.e. Company ABC Widget). I have gotten everything to work properly except for the "quote subject".pdf part. Hope this helps. If not, I can always just write the function as follows:

 $GLOBALS['log']->info("Quote layout view: Standard");
$quotesub = preg_replace("#[^A-Z0-9\-_\.]#i","_", $focus->name);
$filename = ($focus->quote_num);
if (!empty($quotesub)) {
    $filename .= "-{$quotesub}";
}
$filename = $mod_strings['LBL_PROPOSAL']. "_{$filename}.pdf"; 
  

This will output:

"quotation"_"quote number"-"quote_subject".pdf

Thanks!