Use the eval function
$string="word1 word2 word3 word4);
$string_array=explode(" ",$string);
for ($x=0;$x<count($string_array);$x++)
{
eval("\$var".$x."=\"".$string_array[x]."\";");
}
probably needs debugging ...
Speedboy wrote:
>>$string="These are some words"
>>
>>I want it to turn into $var1=These, $var2=are, $var3=some, $var4=some
>>
>
> $search_entities = explode(" ", $string);
>
> if (count($search_entities) > 0) {
> $criteria = "";
> for ($i = 0; $i < count($search_entities); $i++) {
> if ($i == (count($search_entities) - 1)) {
> $criteria .= "name = '$search_entities[$i]'";
> } else {
> $criteria .= " name = '$search_entities[$i]' OR ";
> }
> }
> }
> $query = "select name from countries where $criteria";
>
> I don't like this though, anyone have a better solution?
>
>
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