simple listing problem

[Anonymous]

Hi i am very new to PHP and learning all the time. could someone please tell me how to take the values seperated by commers (,) and list them.

ie.

$values = "1,2,3,4"

to list as

1
2
3
4

i know there could be some sort of loop and some html but im not sure about the php


Many thanks


Digitalbloke

 

[Anonymous]

Do you know how to use arrays, digitalbloke? If you have a delimited list, you can use explode() to place each delimited item into an element of an array. So, if they're separated by commas, you could do the following:

<?
   // the values
   $values = '1,2,3,4';

   /* explode() them into an array named $value_array
      the first argument is the delimiter, in this case ','
   */
   $value_array = explode(',', $values);

   /* now use foreach(), which will loop through the array and 
      output each value
   */
   foreach($value_array as $value) {
      echo $value . "<br>\n";
   }
?>

 

[Anonymous]

spot on!

many thanks!