explode () help

[Daggeth]

I am completely lost...

I have a MySQL text field, with information contained like so:

Username: <-- begin --> Message <-- end -->
Username: <-- begin --> Message <-- end -->

on and on and on

I need it to explode into 2 arrays

Username and Message..

I am completely lost on how to do this...

and another thing

What is a good way to strip a string of ALL HTML TAGS! and to detect any HTML Tags..

Thanks in advance..

[Mordecai]

$string = "Username: <-- begin --> Message <-- end -->";
$string = preg_replace("'<--[^>]*?-->'si","",$string);
$ary_chat = split(":  ",$string);
echo($ary_chat[0].$ary_chat[1]);

This will turn it into an array, where 0 is the username and 1 is the message.

For removing all tags, you can use regular expressions (as seen above--ereg_replace(), preg_replace()) or strip_tags().