Explode() examples

array str_split ( string $string [, int $split_length = 1 ] )

Example #1 explode() examples

<?php// Example 1$pizza  = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6";$pieces = explode(" ", $pizza);
echo $pieces[0]; // piece1echo $pieces[1]; // piece2

// Example 2$data = "foo:*:1023:1000::/home/foo:/bin/sh";
list($user, $pass, $uid, $gid, $gecos, $home, $shell) = explode(":", $data);
echo $user; // fooecho $pass; // *?>

Example #2 explode() return examples

<?php/*
   A string that doesn't contain the delimiter will simply
   return a one-length array of the original string.
*/$input1 = "hello";$input2 = "hello,there";var_dump( explode( ',', $input1 ) );var_dump( explode( ',', $input2 ) );?>

The above example will output:

array(1)
(
    [0] => string(5) "hello"
)
array(2)
(
    [0] => string(5) "hello"
    [1] => string(5) "there"
)

Example #3 limit parameter examples

<?php
$str = 'one|two|three|four';// positive limitprint_r(explode('|', $str, 2));// negative limit (since PHP 5.1)print_r(explode('|', $str, -1));?>

The above example will output:

Array
(
    [0] => one
    [1] => two|three|four
)
Array
(
    [0] => one
    [1] => two
    [2] => three
)