Question

I have a variable, let’s call it $var that echoes out something like:

32-Widgets: 18,28-Widgets: 24,57-Widgets: 45,44-Widgets: 24,55-Widgets: 45

The variable is created from a combination of a form submission and jQuery Sortables (which is why everything ends up in one variable, not two). The order is very important.

What I’d like to end up with is two variables (can be arrays) that would be:

$newVar1 = 32,18,24,45,24
$newVar2 = Widgets: 18,Widgets: 24,Widgets: 45,Widgets: 24,Widgets: 45

I started by:

$newVars = explode(",",$var);

But I’m at a loss of where to go from there. I’ve tried a variety of statements such as:

foreach ($newVars as $newVar) :
    //Various explode() functions tried here.
endforeach;

If anybody has any idea what I’m missing I would certainly appreciate the help.

Thank you,
Eric

Answer 1

It’s not very pretty, but it’ll do the trick.

<?php

$str = "32-Widgets: 18,28-Widgets: 24,57-Widgets: 45,44-Widgets: 24,55-Widgets: 45";

$entries = explode(",", $str);
$parts1 = array();
$parts2 = array();

foreach ($entries as $e)
{
    $temp = explode("-", $e);
    $parts1[] = $temp[0];
    $parts2[] = $temp[1];
}

print_r($parts1);
print_r($parts2);

?>

Running example: http://ideone.com/KkL06f