explode within explode?

Anon

Hi,

I'm storing some URL's in a text field inside a database in the following format:

this is a link, http://www.thislink.com
another link,http://www.sdfsdfsdf.com
link 2,http://www.erwer223.net
.
.
.

So each link is seperated by a new line, and the text is seperated from the URL by a comma.

This way I can output the URL's and their text in my HTML page in a row.

I was just wondering if there is a better way to split them by each line and then perform another split for each array row? Seems very messy and slow.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Autumnnn

van__

use preg_replace to make your links...

<?
$txt="link1,http://bla.com/\nlink2,http:/foo.com\nlink3,http://bar.com";
$lines = explode("\n",$txt);

foreach($lines as $link) {
$links[] = preg_replace('/(.[^,]*),+(.*)/s',"<a href=\\2>\\1</a>",$link);

}

//and dump the array...
print_r($links);