I have my content in a field called content. but for a description i want to get the data then split it into different parts i.e.
content: part1 part2 part3
description: part1 part3

Do you know what i mean?.

and are there any delimiters between the parts?

A simple way would be to serialize your variables in the db field, if you only want to store them.

Otherwise, as Chris implied, you must have separators in your datas, to delimit each values.

Serializing is probably best if you must store the data in the same field:
http://php.net/serialize

If the data is separated by spaces ( or any other delimiter ), explode() should work:

http://php.net/explode

Sounds like your talking about paging a large article into paragraphs. Good feature here making use of PEARs pager class. http://www.alberton.info/pear_pager_...agination.html

If you didn't want to use the two table method outlined above you could just split your content and description fields into arrays. Explode or str_split(php5) spring to mind http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.str-split.php .

Once your content is in the form of an array you could use PEAR::Pager to paginate the array into manageable paragraphs. You will need to install the PEAR framework.