Hehe, that's a lot of P's
Anyways.. I don't know how to do this, and i'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum... if it is, where should I try instead, (like what language would be best?)

Basically I just want the script to do the following:
1) figure out how many letters/characters are in a word... and label them as variables. My PHP script needs to basically "break down" that is inputted into a text-field, into each seperate letter.

Is this possible? What language would be ebst do this? (i'd LIKE php..)

Just to clarify, you want to get the length of a string and convert it to a character array?

This should do it:

PHP Code:

$text = "Text";
$length = strlen($text);
$chars = array();

for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
{
     $chars[] = $text[$i];
} 


Your description is i bit blurry. Do you want to split the text into seperate letters and store each in a seperate variable, like in an array?

Lets say you've got the text 'Hello wolrd!'. Do you want this?

PHP Code:

$myLetters = array('H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'); 


If so, this should to the trick.

PHP Code:

$myText = 'Hello World!'; // From your text field, or other source
$myLetters = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($yourText); $i++) {
   $myLetters[] = $myText{$i};
} 


EDIT: Ah, you got before me Matt

yes thank you both!
for interests sake... (I know I shouldnt be posting JS in a PHP forum.. so sorry a head of time)
but would this have worked as well?

<script type="text/javascript">
function getcharacters()
{
var len = this.length;
y=0;
for(y=1,y> len,y++)
{
x = y-1;
$variable + y + = this.substring(x,y);
}
}
</script>

function getChars(var s)
{
    return s.split("");
}

By the way, the PHP method that I posted is a bit redundant since the string can already be indexed as an array.

PHP Code:

$myString = 'Hello World';

for($i = 0; $i < strlen($myString); $i++)
{
     echo $myString[$i] . ' ';
}

//output
//H e l l o  W o r l d 


Thanks, works great
Ahh, so i should have just gone with javascript all along *sigh*
Thanks for the help ...
but hypothetically, would my script have worken(sp. worked?)?

aaand in the return s.split case how would I put it into an array from that?