For sure this has already been asked by someone else, however I've searched here on SO and found nothing <https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=php+parse+between+words>

I have a string and want to get an array with all the words contained between 2 delimiters (2 words). I am not confident with regex so I ended up with this solution, but it is not appropiate because I need to get all the words that match those requirements and not only the first one.

```
$start_limiter = 'First';
$end_limiter = 'Second';
$haystack = $string;

# Step 1. Find the start limiter's position

$start_pos = strpos($haystack,$start_limiter);
if ($start_pos === FALSE)
{
    die("Starting limiter ".$start_limiter." not found in ".$haystack);
}

# Step 2. Find the ending limiters position, relative to the start position

$end_pos = strpos($haystack,$end_limiter,$start_pos);

if ($end_pos === FALSE)
{
    die("Ending limiter ".$end_limiter." not found in ".$haystack);
}

# Step 3. Extract the string between the starting position and ending position
# Our starting is the position of the start limiter. To find the string we must take
# the ending position of our end limiter and subtract that from the start limiter
$needle = substr($haystack, $start_pos+1, ($end_pos-1)-$start_pos);

echo "Found $needle";

```

I thought also about using explode() but I think a regex could be better and faster.