Split PHP String line-by-line

Usually, you can just explode("\n"), but some systems use "\r\n" or "\n\r" (actually, I don't think this one is used). So if you're getting documents or text from various systems (as you might on the web), you might want a more robust version than just splitting by "\n", as you probably don't want extra "\r" hanging around. I think "\n" is "new line" and "\r" is carriage return (i.e. pressing enter), but I'm not sure.

You can also do it with regex, but years ago when I tested, this was signficantly faster.

$arrayOfLines = explode("\n",
                    str_replace(["\r\n","\n\r","\r"],"\n",$str)
            );