Question

I’ve created a database where I have product attributes separated with semicolons ;. The reason I chose this is it’s incredibly unlikely come up naturally as part of one of the specifications.

I was wishing to do this:

<ul>
  <li><?php str_replace(';','</li><li>',$row['specifications']); ?></li>
</ul>

It would have created a nice unordered list. However, the semicolon is seen as part of the PHP code itself rather than part of the str_replace function. It’s not being escaped with the normal backslash method.

Is there any way of escaping the semicolon character in this function or have I just been a bit daft in choosing the semicolon and should’ve chosen something else?!

— edit —

Sorry, my mistake, it does work. I’d missed my close bracket after [‘specifications’].

Thanks for the answers, though!

Answer 1

$test = "asd;123;asd;123";
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li>'.str_replace(';','</li><li>',$test).'</li>';
echo '</ul>';

Works fine for me.