build multidimensional array from string php

Question

EDIT: Here is a portion of $preparedstring:

555555,Jones,Brian,NYC,1000,2011-10-21 00:00:00,Check,1542,0, ,Check, ,0, ,Check, ,; 666666

Answer 1

You're close, but arrays don't work that way. You can't put a foreach inside an array constructor like that. It should look like this:

$outerARR = explode(";", $preparedstring);
$arr = array();
foreach ($outerARR as $arrvalue){
   $innerarr = explode(",", $arrvalue);
   $arr[] = $innerarr;
}

Demo: http://codepad.org/I5wFFczR