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Posted by Miguel Cruz on 07/29/06 18:02
"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Gary Hasler wrote:
>> usenet@isotopeREEMOOVEmedia.com wrote:
>>> How would one create an array from the values in string ?
>>> $mystring = "67,11,68,11,69,11,70,11"; // comes from a varchar
>>> MySQL field
>>>
>>> I wish that
>>> $myarray = array($mystring);
>>> would work, but it doesn't seem to....
>> I think you want
>> $myarray = explode($mystring, ",");
>
> Which would offcourse work, but seriously reconsider your database if that's
> how you store your data. It shouldn't be necessary to split data in a field.
Not everything needs to be normalized. If those numbers are never
searched on individually or linked to anything else in the database,
there's no point taking on all the overhead (in programming and storage
space) to create a separate table and join them.
miguel
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