title: I need to split text delimited by paragraph tag
body: <pre><code>$text = "&lt;p&gt;this is the first paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;this is the first paragraph&lt;/p&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to split the above into an array delimited by the paragraph tags. That is, I need to split the above into an array with two elements:</p>
  
  <pre><code>array ([0] = "this is the first paragraph", [1] = "this is the first paragraph")
  </code></pre>