Loading Data into an array

Mikemcs

I have a field from a database table that looks like this: (this is all in one long string)

from,mike mcsherry,date,3/23/03,customer, the big company ....

what I need to do is load this data into an array. The odd strings is the name of the value and the even strings are the value to its realitve name. For example "from" is the name and "mike mcsherry" is the value

later in the page I want to put a form tag with a text box named "from" and its value to be "mike mcsherry" and so on.

any code ideas?

bubblenut

<?php
//$row[0] being element being returned frmo the query
$values=explode(',',$row[0]);
for($i=0;$i<count($values);$i+=2) {
  $result[$values[$i]]=$values[$i+1];
}
?>

HTH
Bubble

Mikemcs

Thanks bubblenut, this is what I used:

$prep = ibase_prepare('SELECT first 1 FROM UTWEBFORM');
$query = ibase_execute($prep);
$row = ibase_fetch_object ($query);

$data = $row->FDATASTRING;
$values=explode(',',$data);
for($i=0;$i<count($values);$i+=2)
{
$formarray[$values[$i]] = $values[$i+1];
}