How can I break up a query string

Breaking up a query string using php

[mack]

Sorry if this is an obvious one but I just cant figure it out...

I have a script that receives user input from a form. Something like this...

$query=this+is+the+query

What I need to so is break up the entire string so that each word has it's own variable.

$1="this"
$2="is"
$3="the"
$4="query"

etc etc

one problem is the query lenghth will not always be the same.

Is this possible?

Thank you very much in advance.

Mack.

[Hester]

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[mack]

Thanks for the reply :)

I looked at that thread. I was hoping it may have been a little simpler because it doesnt involve the actual url squery will be what is received by the script from the url.

Thanks again.

Mack.

[Hester]

Perhaps work through the string word by word, splitting it until it returns blank. Use an array with the variable name based on the loop.

[coopster]

Have a look at explode() [php.net] mack. I think that may serve the purpose.

[Mahoney]

$query= "this is the query";
$word = explode(" ", $query);

echo($word[0]);
echo($word[2]);
echo($word[3]);
echo($word[4]);

Hope it helped, had a similar problem yesterday which Hester helped me with. :)

[mack]

wow awsome, thanks Mahoney

Mack.