need some help with word breaking...

[Chris Val Kef]

i need some help.

i've got surnames and names and all i want to do is to showing them like this:

Jack Brown => Brown J.

i need help to cut the name to the first letter.

anybody knows???

[trq]

[code]
<?php
  $name = "Jack Brown";
  $split_name = explode(" ",$name);
  $finished_name = $split_name[1].' '.substr($split_name[0],0,1);
  echo $finished_name;
?>
[/code]

[Destruction]

I can give you an example though you'll have to tailor it to how you want it...

[code]
<?php
$firstName = "Jack";
$lastName = "Brown";

echo $lastName.$firstName{0};
?>
[/code]

I can't recall if it's 0 or 1 but I believe it starts at 0.  The curly braces allow you to select one letter from a string by position within the string.

HTH

Dest

[Chris Val Kef]

thanx for the replies guys!

the code is still the same if i got only the name?

Jack => J.

[Destruction]

If you user firstname and lastname as seperate variables then only need to use $firstName{0} for example to get the J from Jack.  You can do the same with fullname as $fullName{0} which would give J from Jack Brown etc.

HTH

Dest