How do I get PHP to read and create multiple cells in one cell

Like how do I make it read information like this:

where there's one cell and in that cell would be like:

1,2 52,1 23,2

Where a space means another cell. So this way I don't need to waste a bunch of cells and just use one cell in place of many.

I've seen it done before except I am not sure how to do it myself.

 

the question isn't quite clear. can you try to explain? how do you store that information?

 

Erm make one cell of the table sort of act like multiple cells by having multiple information in it.

Instead of having one cell for each thing like

Cell 1: 32,1
Cell 2: 33,2

And have it like

Cell 1: 32,1 33,2

And have a space indicate a new cell.

 

You can explode() them into array using a space as delimiter.

$cell = explode(" ",$yourstring);

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OK thanks a lot!, I will look into it when I get time tomorrow!

 

If you need to search the database based on this information, then normalise it.

Otherwise you can use serialize() and unserialize() to pack and unpack your arrays for storage.