<?php $multipleEmails = 'test@hendriks.ca, test@tvwp.ca'; display ( str_getcsv ( $multipleEmails ) ); display ( stringGetCsvAlternate ( $multipleEmails ) ); function display($t) { foreach ( $t as $k => $v ) { if (strpos ( $v, ',' ) !== false) { $t [$k] = '"' . str_replace ( ' <', '" <', $v ); } $email = trim ( $t [$k] ); print $email . "\n"; } } /** * Using fgetscv (PHP 4) as a work-around for str_getcsv (PHP 5.3) * @param unknown $string * @return multitype: */ function stringGetCsvAlternate($string) { $fh = fopen ( 'php://temp', 'r+' ); fwrite ( $fh, $string ); rewind ( $fh ); $row = fgetcsv ( $fh ); fclose ( $fh ); return $row; }