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One way of doing this below:<br />

<pre><code id="code-5857">&lt;?php
    $myvariable = &quot;1_approved&quot;;
    $variableArray = explode(&quot;_&quot;,$myvariable);
    $variableNumber = $variableArray[0];
    $variableText = $variableArray[1];
    
    echo $variableNumber . &quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;;
    echo $variableText;
?&gt;
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One way of doing this below:


<?php
    $myvariable = "1_approved";
    $variableArray = explode("_",$myvariable);
    $variableNumber = $variableArray[0];
    $variableText = $variableArray[1];
    
    echo $variableNumber . "<br>";
    echo $variableText;
?>


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sorry angellll did not see your post before i posted.
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sorry angellll did not see your post before i posted.

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Within PHP, how can take a variable containing &quot;1_approved&quot; and move it into two variables with the first variable containing &quot;1&quot; and the second variable containing &quot;approved&quot;?
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Within PHP, how can take a variable containing "1_approved" and move it into two variables with the first variable containing "1" and the second variable containing "approved"?

Read one string into two strings

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