[RESOLVED] Simple string manipulation question

[contrasites]

I would like to know how I can take a string that has 2 parts, split them in 2 and then assign a variable for each part.

so it would look somthing like this:

$string = "hello world";

......I need to split this string now....

...and then assign the variables...

$first = "hello";
$second = "world";

does anyone know how this works?

[Scriptmaker]

http://php.net/strings

You can use explode ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php )

Which will take the delimiter you choose and separate a string into different keys of one array.

Then you can use LIST to assign the values of the newly generated keys into variables with easier to remember names.

<?php 
$mystring = "Hello*Contrasites";

echo $mystring."<br />";
//make a new array by splitting string wherever there is a *
$myarray = explode("*",$mystring);

print_r($myarray); //just printing the contents of the new array

//make new variables with $myarray[0] and $myarray[1]
list($FirstWord,$SecondWord) = $myarray; 

//display the new variables
echo "<br />First Word:".$FirstWord. "<br />Second Word:".$SecondWord;

?>

[contrasites]

Nice man!, thanks for spelling it out so easily!

[Scriptmaker]

np, glad I could help 🙂