How to get the multiple array values into explode function?

Question

I am getting these values from a database.

$Generic=$res['Generic'];
$Trade=$res['Trade'];
$Dos=$res['Dos'];
$Duration=$res['Duration'];

I stored the values using implode function. How to get these values into explode function?

Answer 1

Just call explode with the same separator you used for implode :

$foo=array(1,2,3,4);

$imploded=implode('|', $foo);

$restored=explode('|', $imploded);

Answer 2

Using implode causes losing named index information (only the sequence of variables in array matters - so variables would be on indexes 0, 1 and so on). If you want to keep named indexes use serialize.