break text to sepearte strings in php

[angelicdevil]

i have a text line " as title: news words:500 body: this is a great day

now i want the it be broken into such that 3 parts with the variables holding the data as follows

$title = news
$words = 500
$body = this is a great day

how can i get that? i m trying explode implode but not working here's my code

<?php
$first = array();

$string = "title: news words:500 body: this is a great day ";
$sep1 ="title: ";
$sep2 ="words: ";
$sep3 ="body: ";

$first[0] = explode($sep2, $string);
$string0 = implode("",$first[0]);
$title = $string0;
echo $title;

?>

[JKing]

i have a text line " as title: news words:500 body: this is a great day

now i want the it be broken into such that 3 parts with the variables holding the data as follows

$title = news
$words = 500
$body = this is a great day

how can i get that? i m trying explode implode but not working here's my code

<?php
$first = array();

$string = "title: news words:500 body: this is a great day ";
$sep1 ="title: ";
$sep2 ="words: ";
$sep3 ="body: ";

$first[0] = explode($sep2, $string);
$string0 = implode("",$first[0]);
$title = $string0;
echo $title;

?>

<?php
$first = array();
 
$string = "title: news words: 500 body: this is a great day ";
$sep1 ="title: ";
$sep2 ="words: ";
$sep3 ="body: ";
 
$body = strstr($string, $sep3);


$string = str_replace ($body ,"", $string);
$body = str_replace ($sep3, "", $body);
$title = strstr($string, $sep2, true);
$string= str_replace ($title, "" , $string);
$title = str_replace ($sep1, "", $title);
$words= str_replace($sep2, "", $string);

echo $title . "<br />";
echo $body . "<br />";
echo $words;

?>

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Instead of actually including the words title:, words:, body:, just leave them out and use a specific separator between your items, so if your title is "news", words is 500 and body is "hello world", try this:

$string = "News|500|Hello World!";

$split = explode("|", $string);

Now your $split variable is an array with these values:

$split[0] = News
$split[1] = 500
$split[2] = Hello World

Use them as you would.

[angelicdevil]

where m i wrong in this code?

thanx it worked