split php string by colon using split

Question

I wanted to do something like this:

list($hour, $minute) = split("/:/", $departure_time);

however it says split() is deprecated why is this? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

split belongs to the ereg class functions, which have been superseded by preg_match and preg_split.

You should be using explode() anyway, since you only have a static string, not an actual matching pattern with variable placeholders.

Answer 2

Use explode() instead of split().

like this:

$array = explode(':', $string);