Displaying an array as a comma-separated list

…If you attempt to use echo or print to display…the whole contents of an array it wont work in PHP.…In this page an array has been created…above the Doctype on lines two and three and…on line 15 echo is being used in…an attempt to display the contents of the array.…Let's see what that look like, in a browser,…and we'll just zoom in to read that more clearly.…And it says array to string conversion,…gives the location, and then simply displays the word Array.…

Unlike Javascript, PHP doesn't automatically…convert the array to a string.…You need to convert it yourself using the delightfully named implode function.…It's called that because it does the opposite of another…function called explode that breaks a string into an array.…So let's see how implode works let's go back to the editing program.…We still…need echo because that will display the output of the implode function, but we…need to pass flowers, the array, as the argument to the implode function.…

So, implode, and then the argument has to go between…parentheses, and if we save that, go back to the browser, and refresh.…