Token String

This PHP function will assist in splitting a string based on characters.

$string = "This istan examplenstring";
/* Use tab and newline as tokenizing characters as well  */
$tok = strtok($string, " nt");

while ($tok !== false) {
    echo "Word=$tok<br />";
    $tok = strtok(" nt");
}

$first_token  = strtok('/something', '/');
$second_token = strtok('/');
var_dump($first_token, $second_token);

string(0) ""
string(9) "something"

$first_token  = strtok('/something', '/');
$second_token = strtok('/');
var_dump($first_token, $second_token);

string(9) "something"
bool(false)

Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php