Question: Imploding a simple array 

would look like this

```
$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
$comma_separated = implode(",", $array);

```

and that would return this

```
 lastname,email,phone

```

great, so i might do this instead 

```
$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
$comma_separated = implode("','", $array);
$comma_separated = "'".$comma_separated."'";

```

and now i have what I want a nice pretty csv string 

```
 'lastname','email','phone'

```

is there a better way to do this, it feels to me like there should be an optional parameter for implode am I missing something ?

Answer: 
Don't know if it's quicker, but, you could save a line of code with your method: 

**From**

```
$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
$comma_separated = implode("','", $array);
$comma_separated = "'".$comma_separated."'";

```

**To:**

```
$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
$comma_separated = "'".implode("','", $array)."'";

```
```
$id = array(2222,3333,4444,5555,6666);
$ids = "'".implode("','",$id)."'";

```

Or
--

```
$ids = sprintf("'%s'", implode("','", $id ) );

```