I used to have database entries separated by ampersands (&), but this was causing certain search issues so I decided to encapsulate my entries on both sides by $ and & symbols like:

$this&

But I am having trouble displaying all the entries of a cell as individual records. Before I used:

$unsplitItems = $row['files'];

$files = explode("@", $unsplitItems);

foreach ($files as $file) {

   if(strlen($file)) {

      echo "<li>$file</li>";

   }

}

Any idea how I can split my records and display all the items in the array as individual entries?