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How can I split a comma delimited string into an array in PHP?
extract tags (words) from whole string

I’m trying to read a long variable into an array.

Variable $x = "text1", "text2", "text3", etc…

$x = '"text1", "text2", "text3"';

Do I just call it into my array like:

array($x)?

This doesn’t seem to work

I want the final product to be:

array("text1", "text2", "text3")

What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

EDIT:

Ok, some specifics:

I’m trying to replace the date fields in the following array with many dynamically read dates:

$myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2012-09-09", "2012-09-10"), 1, '');

I have the dynamically read dates in a variable $x. When I echo $x, I get something in the format “2012-09-09”, “2012-09-10”, “2012-09-09”, “2012-09-10”, “2012-09-09”, “2012-09-10”, etc

Thanks

Answer 1

If your variable is a string like:

$x = '"text1", "text2", "text3"'

You can convert it to an array with str_getcsv like the following:

$x = '"text1", "text2", "text3"';
$yourArray = str_getcsv($x);