split by spaces but not when phrase is inside quotes

[TRiG]

Handy for creating a search query.

There's a suggested answer on the messageboard, but I think this is cleaner.

$phrases = explode('"', $q);
foreach ($phrases as $k => $v) {
        if (!$v) continue;
        if ($k % 2) {
            $filters[] = $v;
            continue;
        }
        $a = explode(' ', $v);
        foreach ($a as $word) {
            if (!$word) continue;
            $filters[] = $word;
        }
}
print_r($filters);
exit;

[Atli]

Hey.

You could also try a regular expression:
[code=php]<?php
$regex = '/"[^"]+"|[^"\s]+/i';
if(preg_match_a ll($regex, $q, $matches)) {
print_r($matche s[0]);
}
else {
echo "Empty query";
}
?>[/code]
Should be a bit faster, I'd guess.