php Parse user input

Question

I'm currently trying to use PhP to "parse" user input. The page is just a form with one input field and the submit button.

The result I want to achieve is to make PhP echo(rand(0,100) if the user types "rand" But if the user types something of this form: "rand int1-int2" it echos "rand(int1,int2)"

I'm currently using switch, case, break for user input.

Thank you in advance !

<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="commande" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="envoyer!" />
</form>

<?php if (isset($_POST['commande'])) {

    switch($_POST['commande']){ 
        case "hello":
            echo"<h1> Hello </h1>";
        break;
        case substr($_POST['commande'], 0, 4)=="rand":
            echo(rand(1,100));
        break;
        }

    }
?>

Answer 1

You can achieve this using explode .

<?php
    $input = 'rand 1245';
    list($command, $arguments) = explode(' ', $input);
    $arguments = explode('-', $arguments);
    switch($command) {
        case 'rand':
            print_r($arguments);break;
            $min = 0;
            $max = 100;
            if (count($arguments) == 2) {
                $min = (int)$arguments[0];
                $max = (int)$arguments[1];
            }

            echo rand($min, $max);
            break;

    }
?>

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