PHP explode array with 2 types of separators

Question

I have this options array:

string(111) "colors:black;white;transparent;pink;"

how can I explode it so I get as a label first separator : and the rest in array as options? I have this so far:

$options= explode(";",$rows[0]);
$htm= '<ul class="product_opts">'.$lang['available_options'].'';
foreach ($options as $value) { 
        $row=mysql_fetch_row($result);
            $htm.='<li style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;">'.$value.'</li>';
            }
        $htm.= '</ul>';
        }
    echo $htm;

but it returns the label as option too..

Mark Baker · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:42:18Z

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$attributes="colors:black;white;transparent;pink;";

list($attribute, $values) = array_map(
    function($value) {
        return array_filter(explode(';', $value));
    },
    explode(':', $attributes)
);
var_dump($attribute);
var_dump($values);

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:42

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enterx · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:35:40Z

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$str = "colors:black;white;transparent;pink;";

list($label, $optionsStr) = explode(":", $str);

$optionsStr = rtrim($optionsStr, ";");
$options = explode(";", $optionsStr);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($label);

print_r($options);

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:35

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Flosi · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:32:34Z

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Explode string by :. First token will be your label, second token your options.
Explode second token by ;, and you have your options in an array.

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:32

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Nouphal.M · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:35:12Z

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Try

$str = "colors:black;white;transparent;pink;";
$arr = explode(";",$str);
$key = explode(":",$arr[0]);
$arr[0] = $key[1];
unset($arr[sizeof($arr)-1]);

See demo here

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:35

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Karthick Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 09:35:42Z

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use split to do like so

$options= split("[;|:]",$rows[0]);

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 9:35

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Note: This function (split) has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0.

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