pulling first word

[ball420]

i want to be able to just pull the first part of the person's email address from mydatadase to appear on the page how would i got about doin this? thanks for the input

[Anzeo]

<?php
list($Emailalias, $Host) = explode ("@", $Email);
?>

 

Where $Email contains the email of your user. The first part of the email adress will be stored in $Emailalias.

[sw0o0sh]

uhh.. isnt

<?PHP
$r = explode("@",$email);
echo $r[0];
?>

 

easier to understand if he doesn't get your termonology?

 

Explode() arrays before and after every @ in a string of text, so $r[1] would be hotmail.com or something similar.

 

Good luck

[Mr. R]

what does the $host variable do?

[Anzeo]

It's just my terminology, I used that name for the that specific variable. Actually provider would have been a better name . Good note swOoOsh.

 

$Host will store everything after the '@' sign so for example hotmail.com.

[Mr. R]

Ohh right ok, thanks!

[Anzeo]

No biggie.

[MadTechie]

OK this was just some pratice for me but i thought i'll post it

 

this check the email is valid and get the alias and host

 

as a note Anzeo is better (being simpler and quicker)

this does check for a valid domain name

(thats name, it doesn't mean it a valid email as the domain may not exist)

 

<?php
$email =  "bob_the-Builder@our-house.com";

if (eregi('([A-Z0-9._%-]+)@([A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})', $email, $regs))
{
$EmailAlias = $regs[1];
$EmailHost= $regs[2];
}

echo $EmailAlias;
echo "<br />@<br />";
echo $EmailHost;
?>

[sw0o0sh]

I don't exactly see why he would want to "revalidate" the email if its already stored somewhere (assuming he validates it when they register >_>), and i never really heard of an email being valid with two @ symbols so the extra work is kinda unnecessary for something so simple.

 

And thanks for the heads up on the list() function, i didnt know it existed until you said somethin :-P, though I still dont see the need of doing that if he only wants the first part from the email.

[MadTechie]

OK this was just some pratice for me but i thought i'll post it

 

also you may wanna check the results when 2 @'s are used 

[Anzeo]

And thanks for the heads up on the list() function, i didnt know it existed until you said somethin :-P, though I still dont see the need of doing that if he only wants the first part from the email.

 

It's the easiest way to do so . You even could let out $Host, it would only store the alias then.