PHP - I need to find the position of the first vowel in a name

[Shuxclams]

What I want to do is find the position (+1) of the first vowel in a users name and then take that output and use it in a password. What I have is this, but it friggen sucks... I am lost now.. heading down the wrong road and I need a bit help:

function firstvowel(){
include('admin_connect.php');
$query=("SELECT first_name FROM users WHERE username='".$_SESSION['username']."'");
$result = $db_object->query($query);

if (DB::isError($result)) {
die($result->getMessage());
}
$row = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
$firstname=$row['first_name'];
$firstname=trim($firstname);
$countvowel=strpos($firstname, (eregi('^[aeiou]$', $firstname)))+1;
return $countvowel;
}

Thanks in advance,

SHUX

 

[Shuxclams]

I tried this, it still only shows '1'




SHUX

 

[Drakkon]

eregi outputs a truw/false thats why your only getting a 1 no matter what...
prettymuch the only way to do it would be to loop throuwh an array of vowels and strpos each one and if ok then break i.e.

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
eregi outputs a truw/false thats why your only getting a 1 no matter what...
prettymuch the only way to do it would be to loop throuwh an array of vowels and strpos each one and if ok then break i.e.

So lets take the name 'John', I want to show that first vowel in position '2' as the second letter of the name, this will only output the first iteration?


SHUX

 

[tfinch2]

Still not sure by what you mean with +1...

 

[Shuxclams]

This did it perfectly! Thanks!









SHUX

 

[tfinch2]

the +1 and -1 is redundant

 

[Drakkon]

actually I'm sorry to bum ya shux but it wont work "perfectly"...what is the name is Isaac? check out what it outputs as being the position of the first "vowel"...

sorry tryign to come up with a good soln to that...

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
actually I'm sorry to bum ya shux but it wont work "perfectly"...what is the name is Isaac? check out what it outputs as being the position of the first "vowel"...

sorry tryign to come up with a good soln to that...

yeah I just noticed that.............. It worked good once?





SHUX

 

[tfinch2]

add a counter and edit the condition statement to compensate for if the first letter is a vowel

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
add a counter and edit the condition statement to compensate for if the first letter is a vowel

I tried modifying the condition, havent quite figured it out yet......




SHUX

 

[Shuxclams]

I dont seem to be able to figure out a counter, I can use count(), array_count_values() with some type of next()?

Help










SHUX

 

[Shuxclams]

Here is the latest and greatest.... It returns a '0' everytime... I think the problem is in the 'if($countvowel > 0)' condition... or near it.. LoL


Any ideas?








SHUX

 

[wkinney]

Can you explain what you want from the string again, you want the string from index 0 to the first occurence of a vowel?

 

[Shuxclams]

I need to grab the numeric position of the first vowel in the first name of the user. Since PHP counts the first char as '0' I need to add 1 to the position number. i.e, the first name John the first vowel is 'o', PHP function strpos() will report that as position 1 when it is actually the second letter in the name. Also when the first letter is a vowel strpos() reports '0' so I need to make sure that it returns a '1'. Now the odd ball thing is the error control..... If it fails it returns.... you guessed it = '0'








SHUX

 

[Shuxclams]

So this returns the following;

Sean = 2
Dave = 1
Rich = 0
Geoff = 0
Yolanda = 3

What I see in this is that the array is not looping, its searches for an 'a' and when it doesnt find an 'a' it returns the error '0'. Another issue is adding the +1 to the strpos() for the desired output.







SHUX

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Shuxclams
So this returns the following;

Sean = 2
Dave = 1
Rich = 0
Geoff = 0
Yolanda = 3

What I see in this is that the array is not looping, its searches for an 'a' and when it doesnt find an 'a' it returns the error '0'. Another issue is adding the +1 to the strpos() for the desired output.






SHUX

The function finds the position of the first 'a' and returns it.

 

[Drakkon]

strpos is a crappy function...is has duel return types which is horrible because php defines 0 == false (thus it returns 0 if the first character is equal to a "A" or the word has no a's in it)
attached is a working version without calling db so have to modify...i dont know about elegant solution but it seems to work...

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
strpos is a crappy function...is has duel return types which is horrible because php defines 0 == false (thus it returns 0 if the first character is equal to a "A" or the word has no a's in it)
attached is a working version without calling db so have to modify...i dont know about elegant solution but it seems to work...

No wonder this wouldn't work...

 

[Shuxclams]

Awesome! Very cool little function... and I learned something...









SHUX

 

[stndn]

You can also use preg_match combined with strpos to avoid the looping through the string.

 

[Drakkon]

^ there is the more "elegant" way