<?php
function srange ($s) {
  preg_match_all("/([0-9]{1,2})-?([0-9]{0,2}) ?,?;?/", $s, $a);
  $n = array ();
  foreach ($a[1] as $k => $v) {
    $n  = array_merge ($n, range ($v, (empty($a[2][$k])?$v:$a[2][$k])));
  }
  return ($n);
}

$s = '1-4 6-7 9-10';
print_r(srange($s));
?>

Return:
Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
    [2] => 3
    [3] => 4
    [4] => 6
    [5] => 7
    [6] => 9
    [7] => 10
)