No this isn’t about getting frustrated with PHP and nuking your server, this is a couple of very useful (although hard to remember) array functions.
explode() will take a string and give you an array, splitting that string on the delimiter you give. For example, if you have a list of comma seperated values you will work this as follows:
$monkeys = 'bubbles,charlie,george'; $monkeysArray = explode($monkeys,','); var_dump($monkeysArray); # shows you the array
There is also an optional third parameter, $limit, which will restrict the number of array elements created.
implode() will do the opposite; pass it an array and the glue and in return you will get a string of each array element joined by the glue:
$monkeysArray = array('bubbles','charlie','george'); $monkeys = implode(' and ',$monkeysArray); echo $monkeys; # gives you "bubbles and charlie and george"
I could never remember which function is which, so I now imagine “exploding” a string to create an array.
