<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >implode</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="htmlspecialchars" HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="join" HREF="function.join.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.join.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.implode" ></A >implode</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN89702" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >implode -- Join array elements with a string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN89705" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >implode</B > ( string glue, array pieces)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a string containing a string representation of all the array elements in the same order, with the glue string between each element. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN89717" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >implode()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone'); $comma_separated = implode(",", $array); print $comma_separated; // lastname,email,phone ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <B CLASS="function" >implode()</B > can, for historical reasons, accept its parameters in either order. For consistency with <A HREF="function.explode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >explode()</B ></A >, however, it may be less confusing to use the documented order of arguments. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.explode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >explode()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.split.html" ><B CLASS="function" >split()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.join.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >htmlspecialchars</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >join</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >