How to get a substring from string through PHP?

Question

Hi want to change the displayed username like abcd@somedomain.com to only abcd. so for this i should clip the part starting from @.

I can do this very easily through

Answer 1

Try this:

$username = substr($username, 0, strpos($username, '@'));

Answer 2

Use strstr function.

An example from the PHP reference -

<?php
    $email  = 'name@example.com';
    $domain = strstr($email, '@');
    echo $domain; // prints @example.com

    $user = strstr($email, '@', true); // As of PHP 5.3.0
    echo $user; // prints name
?>

Answer 3

$crop_username = substr($username, 0, strpos($username, '@'));

This will help you

Answer 4

substr(string, 0, 20)

String, start, length

Answer 5

list($username, $domain) = explode('@', 'asdf@somedomain.com')

Answer 6

Use strtok().

$username = strtok($email, '@');

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