Finding the Middle elements of a String in PHP

Question

Let's say the string is "ram,shyam,seeta,geeta" (not an array just a text string)

I see that I can use these (strpos)

$findme = ',';
$pos = strpos($this1, $findme);
$pos2 = strripos($this1, $findme);

$showfirst = substr($this1, 0, $pos); 
$showlast = substr($this1, $pos2+1, 9999 ); 

Answer 1

Not sure what you are trying to do? If you're looking to get the words out of the string, just explode it into an array and get the elements you want from the array.

$str = ""ram,shyam,seeta,geeta";
$ary = explode(',',$str);

Answer 2

$str = ""ram,shyam,seeta,geeta";
$ary = explode(',',$str);