Question

I have a field in my database with the text value:

“these, are, some, keywords” (minus the inverted commas)

Now, I wonder if I can generate an unordered list from this so ultimately my HTML reads:

<ul>
<li>these</li>
<li>are</li>
<li>some</li>
<li>keywords</li>
</ul>

Is this possible with PHP and if so is anyone able to help me out with this?

Many thanks for any pointers.

Answer 1

You can accomplish this with something like the following:

<?php
$yourList = "these, are, some, keywords";
$words = explode(',', $yourList);
if(!empty($words)){
    echo '<ul>';
    foreach($words as $word){
        echo '<li>'.htmlspecialchars($word).'</li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
}
?>

As mentioned by elcodedocle, you may want to use str_getcsv() instead of explode if more appropriate.