PHP: Split a string in to an array foreach char

I am making a method so your password needs at least one captial and one symbol or number. I was thinking of splitting the string in to lose chars and then use preggmatch to count if it contains one capital and symbol/number.

however i did something like this in action script but can't figure out how this is called in php. i cant find a way to put every char of a word in a array.

AS3 example

	for(var i:uint = 0; i < thisWordCode.length -1 ; i++)
{
	thisWordCodeVerdeeld[i] = thisWordCode.charAt(i);
	//trace (thisWordCodeVerdeeld[i]);
}

Thanks, Matthy

you can convert a string to array with str_split and use foreach

$chars = str_split($str);
foreach($chars as $char){
	// your code
}

You can access characters in strings in the same way as you would access an array index, e.g.

$length = strlen($string);
$thisWordCodeVerdeeld = array();
for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++) {
    $thisWordCodeVerdeeld[$i] = $string[$i];
}

You could also do:

$thisWordCodeVerdeeld = str_split($string);

However you might find it is easier to validate the string as a whole string, e.g. using regular expressions.

Since str_split() function is not multibyte safe, an easy solution to split UTF-8 encoded string is to use preg_split() with u (PCRE_UTF8) modifier.

preg_split( '//u', $str, null, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY )

You can access a string using [], as you do for arrays:

$stringLength = strlen($str);
for ($i = 0; $i < $stringLength; $i++)
    $char = $str[$i];

Try this, It works beter for UTF8 characters (Kurdish, Persian and Arabic):

<?php
$searchTerm = "هێڵەگ";
$chars = preg_split("//u", $searchTerm, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
foreach($chars as $char){echo $char."<br>";}
?>