help needed with arrays

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me sort this thing out...

I have this URL:
www.myweb.com/myfile.php?var=x,y
and this is what I need from my php:
$list=('x','y')

I tried

$list = "(".'$var'.")";

$list = split ("'", $var);

to create my $list list but I had no success.

Is this the right way to do it?
Thanks again!

Try this:

$list = explode( ",", $var );
var_dump( $list ); // to see what is in array

Simon

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately it doesn't work.

This is the result of your code

array(2) { int(0) string(10) "categoria2" int(1) string(10) "categoria3" }

but I need this ('x','y').

Thanks again!
Danielli

list($x,$y)=each($var);

$listarray=explode(',',$var);

$list="('".$listarray[0]."','".$listarray[1]."')";