implode

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

implodeJoin array elements with a string

Opis

implode ( string $glue , array $pieces ) : string
implode ( array $pieces ) : string

Join array elements with a glue string.

Informacja:

implode() can, for historical reasons, accept its parameters in either order. For consistency with explode(), however, it is deprecated not to use the documented order of arguments.

Parametry

glue

Defaults to an empty string.

pieces

The array of strings to implode.

Zwracane wartości

Returns a string containing a string representation of all the array elements in the same order, with the glue string between each element.

Rejestr zmian

Wersja Opis
7.4.0 Passing the glue after the pieces (i.e. not using the documented order of parameters) has been deprecated.

Przykłady

Przykład #1 implode() example

<?php

$array 
= array('lastname''email''phone');
$comma_separated implode(","$array);

echo 
$comma_separated// lastname,email,phone

// Empty string when using an empty array:
var_dump(implode('hello', array())); // string(0) ""

?>

Notatki

Informacja: Tę funkcję można stosować dla danych binarnych.

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User Contributed Notes 14 notes

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houston_roadrunner at yahoo dot com
14 years ago
it should be noted that an array with one or no elements works fine. for example:

<?php
    $a1
= array("1","2","3");
   
$a2 = array("a");
   
$a3 = array();
   
    echo
"a1 is: '".implode("','",$a1)."'<br>";
    echo
"a2 is: '".implode("','",$a2)."'<br>";
    echo
"a3 is: '".implode("','",$a3)."'<br>";
?>

will produce:
===========
a1 is: '1','2','3'
a2 is: 'a'
a3 is: ''
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ASchmidt at Anamera dot net
5 years ago
It's not obvious from the samples, if/how associative arrays are handled. The "implode" function acts on the array "values", disregarding any keys:

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

$a = array( 'one','two','three' );
$b = array( '1st' => 'four', 'five', '3rd' => 'six' );

echo
implode( ',', $a ),'/', implode( ',', $b );
?>

outputs:
one,two,three/four,five,six
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omar dot ajoue at kekanto dot com
11 years ago
Can also be used for building tags or complex lists, like the following:

<?php

$elements
= array('a', 'b', 'c');

echo
"<ul><li>" . implode("</li><li>", $elements) . "</li></ul>";

?>

This is just an example, you can create a lot more just finding the right glue! ;)
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Felix Rauch
7 years ago
It might be worthwhile noting that the array supplied to implode() can contain objects, provided the objects implement the __toString() method.

Example:
<?php

class Foo
{
    protected
$title;

    public function
__construct($title)
    {
       
$this->title = $title;
    }

    public function
__toString()
    {
        return
$this->title;
    }
}

$array = [
    new
Foo('foo'),
    new
Foo('bar'),
    new
Foo('qux')
];

echo
implode('; ', $array);
?>

will output:

foo; bar; qux
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37
alexey dot klimko at gmail dot com
12 years ago
If you want to implode an array of booleans, you will get a strange result:
<?php
var_dump
(implode('',array(true, true, false, false, true)));
?>

Output:
string(3) "111"

TRUE became "1", FALSE became nothing.
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php.net {at} nr78 {dot} net
18 years ago
Also quite handy in INSERT statements:

<?php

  
// array containing data
  
$array = array(
     
"name" => "John",
     
"surname" => "Doe",
     
"email" => "j.doe@intelligence.gov"
  
);

  
// build query...
  
$sql  = "INSERT INTO table";

  
// implode keys of $array...
  
$sql .= " (`".implode("`, `", array_keys($array))."`)";

  
// implode values of $array...
  
$sql .= " VALUES ('".implode("', '", $array)."') ";

  
// execute query...
  
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

?>
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masterandujar
11 years ago
Even handier if you use the following:

<?php
$id_nums
= array(1,6,12,18,24);

$id_nums = implode(", ", $id_nums);
               
$sqlquery = "Select name,email,phone from usertable where user_id IN ($id_nums)";

// $sqlquery becomes "Select name,email,phone from usertable where user_id IN (1,6,12,18,24)"
?>

Be sure to escape/sanitize/use prepared statements if you get the ids from users.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
It may be worth noting that if you accidentally call implode on a string rather than an array, you do NOT get your string back, you get NULL:
<?php
var_dump
(implode(':', 'xxxxx'));
?>
returns
NULL

This threw me for a little while.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
null values are imploded too. You can use array_filter() to sort out null values.

<?php
$ar
= array("hello", null, "world");
print(
implode(',', $ar)); // hello,,world
print(implode(',', array_filter($ar, function($v){ return $v !== null; }))); // hello,world
?>
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biziclop
2 years ago
Sometimes it's necessary to add a string not just between the items, but before or after too, and proper handling of zero items is also needed.
In this case, simply prepending/appending the separator next to implode() is not enough, so I made this little helper function.

<?php

function wrap_implode( $array, $before = '', $after = '', $separator = '' ){
  if( !
$array )  return '';
  return
$before . implode("{$after}{$separator}{$before}", $array ) . $after;
}

echo
wrap_implode(['path','to','file.php'], '/');
// "/path/to/file.php"

$pattern = '#'. wrap_implode([4,2,2], '\d{', '}', '[-.]') .'#';
echo
$pattern, "\n"// #\d{4}[-.]\d{2}[-.]\d{2}#
echo preg_replace( $pattern, '[REDACTED]', 'The UFO appeared between 2012-12-24 and 2013.01.06 every night.');
// 'The UFO appeared between [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] every night.

echo wrap_implode(['line','by','line'], '<b>', '</b>', '<br>  ');
// <b>line</b><br>  <b>by</b><br>  <b>line</b>

echo wrap_implode( ['<a href="">Menu Item 1</a>', '<a href="">Menu Item 2</a>',],
 
"<li>", "</li>\n",
 
"<li> | </li>\n",
);
/*
<li><a href="">Link1</a></li>
<li> | </li>
<li><a href="">Link2</a></li>
*/

?>
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Honk der Hase
3 years ago
If you want to implode an array as key-value pairs, this method comes in handy.
The third parameter is the symbol to be used between key and value.

<?php
function mapped_implode($glue, $array, $symbol = '=') {
    return
implode($glue, array_map(
            function(
$k, $v) use($symbol) {
                return
$k . $symbol . $v;
            },
           
array_keys($array),
           
array_values($array)
            )
        );
}

$arr = [
   
'x'=> 5,
   
'y'=> 7,
   
'z'=> 99,
   
'hello' => 'World',
   
7 => 'Foo',
];

echo
mapped_implode(', ', $arr, ' is ');

// output: x is 5, y is 7, z is 99, hello is World, 7 is Foo

?>
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Rafael Pereira
3 years ago
If you want to use a key inside array:

Example:
$arr=array(
array("id" => 1,"name" => "Test1"),
array("id" => 2,"name" => "Test2"),
);

echo implode_key(",",$arr, "name");
OUTPUT: Test1, Test2

function implode_key($glue, $arr, $key){
    $arr2=array();
    foreach($arr as $f){
        if(!isset($f[$key])) continue;
        $arr2[]=$f[$key];
    }
    return implode($glue, $arr2);
}
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admin at lanlink dot net dot au
6 years ago
It is possible for an array to have numeric values, as well as string values. Implode will convert all numeric array elements to strings.

<?php
$test
=implode(["one",2,3,"four",5.67]);
echo
$test;
//outputs: "one23four5.67"
?>
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info at ensostudio dot ru
3 years ago
<?php
* Join pieces with a string recursively.
*
* @
param mixed $glue String between pairs(glue) or an array pair's glue and key/value glue or $pieces.
* @param iterable $pieces Pieces to implode (optional).
* @return string Joined string
*/
function double_implode($glue, iterable $pieces = null): string
{
    $glue2 = null;
    if ($pieces === null) {
        $pieces = $glue;
        $glue = '';
    } elseif (is_array($glue)) {
        list($glue, $glue2) = $glue;
    }
   
    $result = [];
    foreach ($pieces as $key => $value) {
        $result[] = $glue2 === null ? $value : $key . $glue2 . $value;
    }
    return implode($glue, $result);
}
?>
Examples:
<?php
$array = ['
a' => 1, 'b' => 2];
$str =  implode($array);
$str =  implode('
, ', $array);
$str =  implode(['" ', '="'], $array);

$iterator = new ArrayIterator($array);
$str =  implode($iterator);
$str =  implode('
, ', $iterator);
$str =  implode(['" ', '="'], $iterator);
?>
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