Seperate strings in PHP

Hello Everybody, Happy New Year !!! I have a question that to the skilled is probably very basic. Within a mysql database I have a field that holds the following type of information... ac,pw,ps,rc,cd,aw,rs,4wd,abs etc It is the features of a car, and the field name is "specs" (Eg ac = air conditioning, pw = power steer etc) I don't want an indivual field for all the different features, but I want to be able to break up the above string and place an image in my page for that abreviation. I have the rest sorted out the vehicle make model etc I just need to display these. I already have the images (eg: ac.gif) Different vehicles will have different numbers of specs. Some might only have ac,pw,ps. Example I would like the above string to appear something like... echo "<img src=\"images/$myrow[10].gif\">"; I am not sure how to continue it. Let alone split the string. I assume converting the string to an array would work, but I am not sure how. Is there an opposite to the implode command where I could specify the "," as a break? Any help would be really great. Thanks, Chris