Question

first question answered very quickly, thanks to all.

here is the issue, for a given string..

$str= "name1 surname2, name2 midname2 surname2";

to make things more clear, there is two persons, one has two values(name, surname) while other has midname too. so, I want to get all them separate while knowing which name belongs to which person, like;

foreach ($persons as person){
   if( person has midname){
      $value1 ="name"; $value2= "midname"; $value3="surname"}
    else
    $value1="name"; $value2="surname"   
   }

Answer 1

$str = str_replace(',', '', $str);
$arr = explode(' ', $str);