What is the use of explode() function in PHP ?

Answer 1

The explode() function breaks a string into an array.It Returns an array of strings, each of which is a substring of string formed by splitting it on boundaries formed by the string delimiter.
Example:

$values  = "val1 val2 val3";
$splitValues = explode(" ", $values);
echo $splitValues[0]; // val1
echo $splitValues[1]; // val2
echo $splitValues[3]; // val3

Answer 2

The explode() function breaks a string into an array. It return an array of string, each of which is a substring of string formed by splitting it on boundaries formed by the string delimiter.

EX.

$val = "val1 val2 val3";
$splitVal = explode(" ", &val);
echo $splitVal [0];
echo $splitVal [1];
echo $splitVal [2];

Answer 3

The explode() function breaks a string into an array.

syntax: explode(separator,string,limit)

example :
<?php $str = "Hello world. It's a beautiful day."; print_r (explode(" ",$str)); ?>