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

```
Another possible option, depending on what you need the array for:

```
$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
echo json_encode($array);

```

This will put '[' and ']' around the string, which you may or may not want.