[SOLVED] Splitting a string into different parts?

[proud]

 

$full_name="Mike Jerry Hanson";

 

I want to split this full name into 3 parts and assign each to a different variable

 

Example:

$first_name="Mike";

$mid_name="Jerry";

$last_name="Hanson";

 

Note that I don't know the $full_name string length, the only thing that separates first name, middle name and last name is the space between them.

 

To elaborate:

 

$full_name=$first_name." ".$mid_name." ".$last_name;  

[joel24]

$full_name="Mike Jerry Hanson";

$fullname = explode(" ", $fullname);

 

which splits $fullname into an array, split up by the spaces.

 

so

$fullname[0] is now "Mike"

$fullname[1] is now "Jerry"

$fullname[2] is now "Hanson"