string manipulation

[Anon]

Hi,
I retrieve a string from my db which is a long article.How can I display this article in multiple html Tables,cells etc.
The $substring function may cut a word off half way through which is no good.
an example:
I need to split the string into three and have each part display in three separate cells...

[Anon]

Have you consider using explode?
explode split the string into array, then you can call the array piece by piece.
This is what I got from php manual:

array explode (string separator, string string [, int limit])

$pizza = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6";
$pieces = explode (" ", $pizza);

[Anon]

thanks jamie,
That's perfect for what i want to do.