John Davidson

Message:

I have a set of paragraphs that are inside a variable that I'd like to add to an array.

so...

$text = 

'<p>para 1</p>

<p>para 2</p>

<p>para 3</p>';

outputs

Array

(

  [0] => para 1

  [1] => para 2

  [2] => para 3

)

---

My Answer:
$text = '<p>para 1</p>
<p>para 2</p>
<p>para 3</p>';

// Remove HTML tags and convert entities
$text = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($text));

// Split paragraphs into an array
$paragraphs = explode("\n", $text);

// Remove empty elements
$paragraphs = array_filter($paragraphs);

// Reindex the array
$paragraphs = array_values($paragraphs);

print_r($paragraphs);

// Output:
// Array
// (
// [0] => para 1
// [1] => para 2
// [2] => para 3
// )