Question

I have single field that allows the user to input different options in one string. So, 13123123|540|450

How would I parse out those three values into three variables?

Answer 1

You can use list to put them into three distinct variables:

$str = '13123123|540|450';
list($one, $two, $three) = explode('|', $str);

Alternatively, you can just access them via the array indicies if you wanted to:

$str = '13123123|540|450';
$split = explode('|', $str);
// $split[0] == 13123123