PHP Tutorial 20 - Explode (PHP For Beginners)

The Explode function will allow you to split a string up by the string that you declare. So you could split a paragraph up into sentences by splitting it by a full stop or even split a sentence up into words by splitting it by a space. This video will show you how to explode a string and then access each string stored inside arrays.

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[cyrusthegreat]

your tutorials are awesome man. Seriously, I learned more by watching your videos in 1 day than I learned in 6 months at my college.

[honeylynpascual]

this video is really nice....helped me a lot thank you so much uploader

[damiandevlin]

i'm learning a lot form you, thank you very much!

[ValtteriV]

Nice tutorial, thank, you earned a sub and a recomendation to all my friends

[DubstepPLZ]

@TeachMeComputer Amazing videos, I just started learning today and I love it

[lopejustin]

This can be used in for Interface files separated by "|". Extremely useful in EDI transmissions.

[sashablfc]

this actually really helped me thanks, btw im also from liverpool (you sound like you have a scouse accent)

[tbyers]

Great series of videos.  I'm humbled that you were only 18 when you made these.  Wow.  How would you explode on more than one condition?  For example the last element of the array contains the period.  Sentences might also have commas and other punctuation you would want to eliminate at the same time, no?

[uddayshank]

Many times you have a string which has a repeatable 'delimiter'. You might want to look for a particular piece of the string. so you convert it into an array by this and then run over the array.

[HimanshJainYTube]

Thanks for such a cool Tutorial. But can you tell me the the practical use of this function?

[cputurbopc]

hmm question... is there a simular code for explode, but then with more parameters... because it said it can only take up to 3 parameters...

[dashbyictfd]

Chris, I have looked through your tutorials and cannot find one regarding dynamic sites and loading dynamic title/meta info from mysql, any chance of a tutorial. I have all the files and DB but this is a problem I have been trying to resolve for a week now. Any chance of a tutorial? Thanks

[arijitdutta]

I couldn't understand the last part "echo $parts[1];"
why does it give back only H?

[MyAffanali]

Sir please tell me that how to add the break between two print

[lebogangsekaleli]

How do i code a function that processes colon separated strings using the explode function?

[Travailleradomicile]

Could you please explain what the explode function is used for in real live scripts please?
Thank you

[dissdad]

*2:12** Why does it output an Array, when you have not used the Array Function?*

[anonymousvagrant]

Thanks for the tutorial, but i don't see any point using the explode function.

[mohitsharma]

What is the difference between "print_r" and "echo"?

[bogoreh]

that is the source of the tutorial

<?php
/* The first example
$sentence = 'I am enjoying the PHP video tutorials.';
$parts = explode(' ', $sentence);
print_r($parts);
*/

$sentence = 'I am enjoying the PHP video tutorials.';

$parts = explode('P', $sentence);

echo $parts[1];

?>