Variables and more variables...

[Anon]

First of all, I want to thank to all those ppl that helped me out last time I had a problem! U guys rule. Best regards to all.

Now, the major problem is that I am a fresh newbie on the PHP scene. I'm doing my best to learn it, and in one week of work I've already had some results but!...

Here's the scoop...

I'm passing a variable from flash with loadvariablenum() to a php script that is going to perform a mysql search based on the variable "search" that flash sends.
Now the problem is that if the variable is a string with only one word, it's perfect, i made it work and returned the results to flash... but what i want to do is in the same variable put more words, like "search=online&games". When this var reaches flash how can I break it in 2 like search[1]=online search[2]=games so that I can use both words seperately in two variables. How can I manage this? I dunno how to split a variable in two...

CAN ANYONE HELP ME??? 😛

thnx a lot

[Anon]

If you are passing information through a URL that contains illegal characters such as a space, you must first encode that data to make it legal. See the manual for the urlencode() function.

[Anon]

urlencode()

I am using it already when i pass the information from the php script back to flash, but the problem is how can I determine how many words are in a variable ex🙁search="bla the mom") and split them into 3 variables separately... which php functions can be used?

Thx
Gus