[SOLVED] Change order of first and last name

[skyer2000]

Quick question,

 

Lets say I have a string that says "John Doe, Nancy Palin, George Johnson".

 

I want to switch it to "Doe, John, Nancy Palin, George Johnson".

 

How would I do that? Is it some sort of string replace?

[DarkWater]

You only want the first name switched?  And lol @ Sarah Palin and her horrid sense of humor.  I bet you all the hockey moms were pissed.

 

Edit: I was just heard someone say Nancy Pelosi so I accidentally typed it.  WOOPS.

[skyer2000]

And lol @ Sarah Palin and her horrid sense of humor.

 

Fixed for ya

 

And yes, only the first name.

[DarkWater]

Uhh:

 

<?php
$string = 'John Doe, Sarah Palin, Joe Bidon, Barack "Omgcool" Obama';
$text = explode(',', $string);
$text[0] = implode(',', array_reverse(explode(' ', $text[0])));
$string = implode(', ', $text);
echo $string;
?>

[skyer2000]

Yeah I know its a pretty weird request, this string stuff is always confusing to me as well.

 

Using the code changes "John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama"

 

to

 

"McCain,John, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama"

 

I can't quite wrap my head around the code, how can I add a space there? Also, if it is just one name like "Sara Palin", it changes to ",Palin,Sarah".

 

Any ideas?

[DarkWater]

First of all, in my edit I fixed that space thing.  I guess you caught it right before the edit (which I did pretty quickly, lol).  Anyway, you never said just one name.   Here:

 

<?php
$string = "Sarah Palin";
if (strpos($string, ',') !== FALSE) {
    $text = explode(',', $string);
    $text[0] = implode(',', array_reverse(explode(' ', $text[0])));
    $string = implode(', ', $text);
}
else {
    $string = implode(', ', array_reverse(explode(' ', $string)));
}
echo $string;
?>

 

EDIT: Syntax error, fixed.

[skyer2000]

Excellent work, thank you!

[DarkWater]

No problem.