title: PHP table field values into an array or multi-dimensional array
body: <p>I haven't actually came across this situation yet but i will probably have a need for it in the near future. In current frameworks or CMS like joomla I have noticed multiple parameters and values stored in 1 field within a database table. what would be the best way to extract these values as a key => value in an array? so say a field / column has (Joomla example):</p>
  
  <pre><code>show_title=1
  link_titles=1
  show_intro=blah blah blah
  show_section=
  link_section=
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and so on ......</p>
  
  <p>how would such break these up in a nice clean way? it also seems the entries have a new line to break apart each parameter. Is it actually possible to explode a /n? </p>