Comments on: Retrieve valid entries for a MySQL ENUM/SET column

by: Passerby

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:46:11 +0000

None of the solutions suggest prior to this post have worked for me, so I came up with this:

preg_replace("/')$/", '', preg_replace("/^(enum|set)('/", '', $fields))

Note: I'm using PHP 5.2.0 with mysqli functions

This function is a great idea though. Thanks for sharing.

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:39:17 +0000

This work for me:

preg_replace("/(?:enum|set)('(.+?)')/","\1", $fields)

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:46:59 +0000

Thanks for this code snippet. It does exactly what I want!

I do have one small problem though. On my system the function returns a string like this for the opening array value:

set('value

And for the closing value it returns:

value')

Do you have a quick suggestion for how to make the preg_replace function work? I'm on PHP 4.

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:56:30 +0000

Although it doesn't this doesn't affect the correctness of the script, there should be a semicolon after "return $options"