explode question

[centenial]

Hi,

I have a 'string' that contains three pieces of information. I need to put each of those pieces of information into a separate variable so I can insert them into three seperate fields in a database table.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

<?php

$string = explode(';', first,second,third);

$i=1;

foreach ($string as $variable) {
	$v_$i = "$variable";
	$i++;
}

// And then use $v_1, $v_2, and $v_3 as variables in a query string.

?>

Unfortunately this creates a PHP error. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for your time,

[bradgrafelman]

You're trying to do variable variable names? Like so:

<?php

$string_of_values = "string 1;string 2;and finally string 3";
$string = explode(';', $string_of_values);

$i=1;

foreach ($string as $variable) {
	${'v_'.$i} = $variable;
	$i++;
}
?>

[NogDog]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just use the array values returned by explode() instead of adding a separate loop? For example:

$values = explode($some_array);
$query = "INSERT INTO table_name VALUES ('{$values[0]}', '{$values[1]}', '{$values[2]}')";

Besides saving a bit of processing time, this would me less code to potentially fail, and less code to have to debug when something does fail.