Comments on: Split a name with PHP

By: Nastron

Nastron — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:57:29 +0000

It’s somehow of what I thought that I would do. But this kind of solution doesn’t work for some arabic complex names (that consists of more than one part).

By: lolbox

lolbox — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:13:00 +0000

also, is it possible to have it split 4 names in the $name field, so if i input Mr John Smith Jr the first name will be Mr John and last name would be Mith Jr? would i have to do a preg_match or something?

By: lolbox

lolbox — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:57:37 +0000

great stuff:)

i’m a php_newb… how can do the opposite with the first and last name so the middle initial/name goes with the first name rather than the last?

By: yatin

yatin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:57:54 +0000

Hey,

It’s a great tutorial for split description with php but what happen if string having html tags in it.

Here is a tutorial to work with that condition

http://phpschools.freehostia.com/other-stuff/split-html-description-in-php

By: Kent Ivar Mathisen

Kent Ivar Mathisen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:52:03 +0000

$name = “Kent Mathisen”;
list($first, $last) = explode(” “, $name);
echo “First name: ” . $first . “, last name: ” . $last;

Won’t give any errors or warnings

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:09:44 +0000

from http://php.net/split :

Note: As of PHP 5.3.0 the regex extension is deprecated, calling this function will issue an E_DEPRECATED notice.