making lists of words

[foid025]

Hi, I've got another question. Thanks a lot for all your help with my last one. Say I save into a field of a mySql database something like "two, three, four, five, six" all within one field, and then save each individual value into a spot in an array. So my array would go somewhat like a[0]=two a[1]=three and so on. I know how to do this in Java, but not in PHP... Thanks a lot.

Similarly, is it legal so write
$string = five;
$string = $string + ',' + 'six';

Thank you very much!

[devinemke]

$string = 'one, two, three, four, five, six';
$array = explode(', ', $string);
print_r($array);

[infolock]

in response to your last question, no. you'd have to say :

$string = 'ive';
$string .= ',six';
//or
$string .= ','.'six';

for your first question, you need to use the function explode.

$var = 'two,three,four,five,six';
$a = explode(','$var);

which would do exactly what you are wanting. there could be some whitespace in the aftermath of doing that, but you coul djust call the trim function and get rid of it

example

$total_a = count($a);
for($i=0; $i<$total_a; $i++)
  $a[$i] = trim($a[$i]);

Edit:
devinemke, ur too fast for me =\

[_theworks]

to make a list from an array.

<?
$listofwords = array('word one', 'word two' , 'word three');

echo "<ul>\n";
foreach ($listofwords as $word) {
	echo "<li>".$word."</li>\n";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

[infolock]

The works : That would be fine if you were manually building a list, but he says he is generating this list as a single array value from an sql query.

so if he says "Select this from table", the result would be "two, three, four, five" in a single row/variable.

Arrrays, with foreach, walk, and for loops are ideal in most cases, just didn't have a place in this one =\

[_theworks]

heh yeh my bad... i gota read posts slower..