splitting text

[Woodburn2006]

if i had a variable set as "hello world" how would i split it so that i had 2 variables

 

$1 = hello

 

$2 = world

[cooldude832]

50 million ways to do it

str_split

explode

strinstr

etc etc..

 

one example

<?php
$string = "Hello World";
$var = explode(" ",$string);
var_dump($var);
?>

 

[Woodburn2006]

cool, using the example, how would i get 2 seperate variables from it?

 

i am splitting names, so i need to get 2 variables from it: firstname and surname?

[cooldude832]

i thought about that, but I stopped because what if you have 3 words i thought of giving you

<?php
$string = "hello world";
list($var1,$var2) = explode(" ",$string);
?>

list lets you assign an array output as though they were linear.

 

So if you always have 2 words list will work, otherwies you will have to think it through a bit more, and maybe use strinstr or str_split and just split the first word off and the rest and var2, using the array won't kill you, but then your size isn't constant if you have >2 words.  Look up the string functiosn on php and see if you come up with something, instead of me spooning you it.

[willpower]

or i use arrays...

 

<?php

 

$mystring="Hello World I'm Willpower";

 

$split=explode(" ",$mystring);

 

?>

 

Now to get the vars

 

echo $spilt[0]; // Hello

echo $split[1]; // World

echo $split[2]; // I'm

 

etc

[revraz]

In the 2nd post, $var was an array.