When you explode, and there is no delimiter you have requested, the result at index 0 is the entire string.
test
// [1] => test2.
// [2] => test3
// [3] => test4
//)
$string = "test test2. test3 test4";
print_r( explode(',', $string) );
//Array
//(
// [0] => test test2. test3 test4
//)