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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">

<head>

	<title>String parser</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<meta name="author" content="Vivian Lam" />

	<style type="text/css">
	pre { border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; }
	td { border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 0.5em; border-collapse: collapse; }
	tr.alt { background: #eee; }
	</style>

</head>

<body>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="post">

	<p>Make it look something like this:</p>
<pre>
Name :: Anonymous
Food :: Pineapples
Drink :: Caesar's
Movie :: Labyrinth
Email :: hottie293874@hotmail.com
David Bowie? :: Yes
</pre>

	<p><textarea name="stuff" rows="5" cols="" style="width:50%;"></textarea></p>
	<p><input type="submit" value="FIRE AWAY"></input></p>
	
</form>

<?php

if($_POST) { // Do this only if some data has been submitted
	
	echo "<p>You made a table!</p>\n";
	
	echo "<table>\n";
	
	$color = false; // Alternates so that every other row is styled differently
	
	$lines = explode("\n", htmlspecialchars($_POST['stuff'])); // Split text in to array, so each line of text is an entry in the array
	
	foreach($lines as $line) {
		
		$x = explode("::", $line); // Split line in to two, separated by the ::
		
		if($color) {
			echo "<tr>";
			$color = false;
		} else {
			echo "<tr class='alt'>";
			$color = true;
		}
		
		echo "<td>".trim($x[0])."</td><td>".trim($x[1])."</td></tr>\n"; // Display as a table
	}
	
	echo "</table>";
}

?>

</body>

</html>