Question

Given that I have a variable $peopleSize in the format (I’ve already extracted the information from the UI element):

xxx-yyyy people

For example as seen in the jquery range UI:

http://jsfiddle.net/methuselah/SLvtx/1/

How would I get the two min and max as two seperate variables using PHP getting rid of the “-” and “people”?

Answer 1

One of many ways to do it: split the string on '-' and ' '.

$peopleSize = 'xxx-yyyy people';
$parts = preg_split('-| ', $peopleSize);
$min = $parts[0];
$max = $parts[1];