Make array of comma seperated string

[gabrielk]

Hi folks,

I've found a lot of functions in the manual (strstr, substr, substr_count, etc etc). But Í could not get it together to create a function which would take for example:

$values = "1,4,5,6,7";

And give a array like:

Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 4
[2] => 5
[3] => 6
[4] => 7
)

I guess this is a common question, but I could not find the answer (yet) on the forum.

Thanks in advance,
Gabriel

[WinterDragon]

Um, you could do one like this...

$values = "1,4,5,6,7";

$array = explode(",", $values);

foreach ($array as $i) {
echo "$i<br>";
}

Try that?

[gabrielk]

Thanks!

I guess I've missed the explode function.

[WinterDragon]

No problem hehe, Always glad to help, Just post back if you need anymore help. 🙂

[Siggles]

You could try this function:

function priceCmp($a, $b){
$a1=explode('","',$a);
$b1=explode('","',$b);
if ($a1[7] == $b1[7])
return 0;
else if ($a1[7] > $b1[7])
return 1;
else return -1;
}

then sort the arry like this:

uasort($array, priceCmp);

worked with my text delimited text file a treat.

[saidbakr]

What would the case if the $value takes values like these:
$value = "122,514,128,22,4555"
and you want to separate each number in a string like this?
Really till this moment I have not know.
Any more ideas?