Explode Function - The Basic's
The explode functions splits a PHP variable by a defined delimiter.This can be very useful in many cases, to split information stored in a special format or to parse a data of birth like we will in this example.
Example 1: Basic example using Date Of Birth
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<?php $mydob = "01/04/1990"; // Setting the DOB variable $dob = explode("/", $mydob); // Splits the data using the delimiter which in this case is a "/" $day = $dob[0]; // The first in the series is the day of birth $month = $dob[1]; // Second is the month $year = $dob[2]; // Third is the year of birth ?>
The above splits the data at a '/' section this could be set as any thing such as : which will mean the new date of birth will be 01:04:1990
Example 2: Assigning to Variables
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<?php $data = "DanielXP:mYPaSS:daniel@somesite.com"; // The data we wish to split using the explode function. In this example this is a username, password and email. The delimiter being a ":" list($username, $password, $email) = explode(":", $data); // This splits the data by the delimiter and the list functions assigns them to the defined variables. echo "Welcome ".$username." - You email is ".$email; ?>
I hope this tutorial has been informative.
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