[UPHPU] A couple of questions - Arrays and String problem

[Wade Preston Shearer]

> 1- I am working on a PHP web page that will build a table.  The data
> for the table is coming from a MySQL database, one of the fields is a
> list of multiple items.  I would like each item in the list to be a
> link to click on that would take the user to a different place.  Would
> an array(s) be the best solution for this type of problem or would
> something else work better?

That sounds fine to me.

> 2- In conjunction with question number 1, the items in the list are
> input with a "," as a seperator.  I have found some functions (i.e.
> strrpos) that will find a particular character or characters in a
> string.  However, best I can tell these only work on finding the first
> or the last character in that string not every one.  Do I need to
> (attempt to) build my own function that would find all of the "," in a
> string or is there one that would work for this that is already
> included in PHP?

Sounds like you want explode:

http://php.net/explode
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