Question

I have the following bit of PHP code.

Ultimately, I’d like to store <p>Michael is 26</p> in the $str1 variable and <p>He likes green cars.</p><p>And white footballs</p><p>And red lollies</p><p>And yellow suns</p> in the $str2 variable.

So basically everything in the first paragraph goes in $str1 and everything thereafter goes in $str2.

<?php
    $str = "<p>Michael is 26</p><p>He likes green cars.</p><p>And white footballs</p><p>And red lollies</p><p>And yellow suns</p>";
    $strArray = explode('</p>', $str);
    $str1 = $strArray[0] . '</p> ';
    echo $str1;
    // variable to export remainder of string (minus the $str1 value) ?
?>

How do I achieve this?

Many thanks for any pointers.

Answer 1

Use explode with a delimiter:

 explode('</p>', $str, 2);

This will return:

array (
   0 => '<p>Michael is 26',
   1 => '<p>He likes green cars.</p><p>And white footballs</p><p>And red lollies</p><p>And yellow suns</p>' 
)

So then all you have to do is:

$strArray = explode('</p>', $str, 2);
$str1 = $strArray[0] . '</p> ';
$str2 = $strArray[1];
echo $str1.$str2; //will output the original string again