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Explode
By admin (2004-12-17. 7149 views.)
A description of how the PHP explode statement works.
Explode takes a string and splits it up. You can split a string into an array as follows:


<?php

$mystring = "Fred,Bloggs,10 Fred's Road,Fredsville";
$myarray = explode(',' $mystring);

?>


What the above does is it splits the string wherever a ',' is found, so the resultant array would be as follows:

$myarray[0] = "Fred"
$myarray[1] = "Bloggs"
$myarray[2] = "10 Fred's Road"
$myarray[3] = "Fredsville"

You could also split it into a list of variables as follows:


<?php

$mystring1 = "Fred|Bloggs|10 Fred's Road|Fredsville";
list($first, $last, $road, $town) = explode('|' $mystring1);

?>


Which would give:

$first = "Fred"
$last = "Bloggs"
$road = "10 Fred's Road"
$town = "Fredsville"

You can reverse the effects of explode with implode. Working with the array of:

$myarray[0] = "Fred"
$myarray[1] = "Bloggs"
$myarray[2] = "10 Fred's Road"
$myarray[3] = "Fredsville"

We could put it back together with:


<?php

$mystring = implode(',', $myarray);

?>


And $mystring would once again be: "Fred,Bloggs,10 Fred's Road,Fredsville"



Be careful exploding an empty string as it will still create an array with a blank member. For example:


<?php

$mystring = "";
$myarray = explode(',' $mystring);

?>


Would still define:

$myarray[0] = ""

This may be of some consequence if you use the array at some point later.
 
 
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