<?php
$items = "house , ball , door , roof , floor";
$itemsexploded = Explode(" , ", $items);
$itemsimploded = "'" . implode("','",$itemsexploded) . "'";
?>
That should do it. The only weird bit is adding the single quotes to the beginning and end of the final string.
You could also do a str_replace()
<?
$items = "house , ball , door , roof , floor";
$finalitems = "'" . Str_replace(" , ", "',', $items) . "'";
?>
And of course you can do regex stuff, but I'm not good at that so I'll leave an example to someone else if they care to give one.
Just remember, explode() creates an array out of items based on a set of characters you tell it are the divider. If you had a tab delimited text file, you'd want to break on "\t" (for tab).
Implode() does the opposite. It takes an array and joins the items using the string you give it. This is good for things like what you're doing above, but in this case a simple str_replace() works just as good too.
-TG
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> A newbie issue:
> I´m receiving this: "house , ball , door , roof , floor"
> And I want to obtain this: "'house','ball','door','roof','floor'"
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> Maybe, I should use implode or explode, but I just can´t
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