Ok, I have an IRC bot made from PHP (if you don't know what IRC is, it's a chat)
I'm working on a command where users can enter their bday and it stores them in a text file, I'm not going to explain the way the bot works, but I'll keep it simple
ok let's say someone typed !bday
this would make the bot search the text file for the line containing their nick, and display it.
sooo let's say that when someone typed !bday... $nick is their nick.
it would need to search the text file for a LINE containing their $nick and display the whole LINE.
for example: "xx Days xx Minutes xx Seconds until $nick bday!"
ok, that's the first command I need help with.. the next command I need help is storing the bday.
let's say the user typed !addme 1/1/2012
and lets say that the part "1/1/2012" is the input and the input is $input
there's 3 things I need it to do....
I need it to first check if they entered it correctly.. meaning that if the input doesn't match the pattern: mm/dd/yy it returns false.
the second thing I need to do is change the $input to something.
because in order for my timer code to work properly, the format needs to be like this..
if the user inputs: 1/12/2010
it should be changed to: 1 December 2010
now for the third thing...
there's a special way I need it to submit..
for example, when someone adds them self, it puts their bday on a line in the text file.
BUT if their $nick already exists in a line of the text file, it should delete the line and re-add their bday.
and if this happens it needs to echo something different.. like "Success, updated!" or something.
ok I think you get the idea.. please help me, I am sort of novice at PHP so I don't know how to do this..
Edit: for the second thing (changing the mm/dd/yy to something else) I think I have it figured out myself.
str_replace('2', 'February', str_replace('1', 'Januauary', str_replace('/', ' ', $input))); etc etc
or would there be a better day?
Edit again: no. my method wouldn't work
because then 1/1/2010 would result in something like Januauary Januauary 20Januauary0
lol.
I'm working on a command where users can enter their bday and it stores them in a text file, I'm not going to explain the way the bot works, but I'll keep it simple
ok let's say someone typed !bday
this would make the bot search the text file for the line containing their nick, and display it.
sooo let's say that when someone typed !bday... $nick is their nick.
it would need to search the text file for a LINE containing their $nick and display the whole LINE.
for example: "xx Days xx Minutes xx Seconds until $nick bday!"
ok, that's the first command I need help with.. the next command I need help is storing the bday.
let's say the user typed !addme 1/1/2012
and lets say that the part "1/1/2012" is the input and the input is $input
there's 3 things I need it to do....
I need it to first check if they entered it correctly.. meaning that if the input doesn't match the pattern: mm/dd/yy it returns false.
the second thing I need to do is change the $input to something.
because in order for my timer code to work properly, the format needs to be like this..
if the user inputs: 1/12/2010
it should be changed to: 1 December 2010
now for the third thing...
there's a special way I need it to submit..
for example, when someone adds them self, it puts their bday on a line in the text file.
BUT if their $nick already exists in a line of the text file, it should delete the line and re-add their bday.
and if this happens it needs to echo something different.. like "Success, updated!" or something.
ok I think you get the idea.. please help me, I am sort of novice at PHP so I don't know how to do this..
Edit: for the second thing (changing the mm/dd/yy to something else) I think I have it figured out myself.
str_replace('2', 'February', str_replace('1', 'Januauary', str_replace('/', ' ', $input))); etc etc
or would there be a better day?
Edit again: no. my method wouldn't work
because then 1/1/2010 would result in something like Januauary Januauary 20Januauary0lol.