Question

I have this output from SQL table:

array{
   "data" => "line1
line2
line3"
}

I am using something like this query: SELECT data FROM table WHERE ...;

Can I somehow make this sql query return:

array{
   "data1" => "line1",
   "data2" => "line2",
   "data3" => "line3",
}

Answer 1

The short answer is: No, better do it in PHP:

list($the_array['data1'], $the_array['data2'], $the_array['data3']) =
explode("\n", $the_array['data'], 3);

The longer (or shorter) answer is: See this question of mine and dig through the links.