is this close? replacing..

[aebstract]

I'm trying to figure out how to remove the @ and everything after it in an email address. So [email protected] would end up as just test.

I dunno if I'm in the right direction or not, possibly an easy way to do this and I'm going way out of the way..

 

str_replace (^[@]$,,$email);

[cooldude832]

easier is

<?php
$email  = "[email protected]";
$sub_email = substr($email,0,strpos($email,"@")-1);
echo $sub_email;
?>

[aebstract]

Can you explain what its doing, like why it works so I understand for future

I think the -1 is taking a character off before the @ sign 

[cooldude832]

reaad substr and strpos

[Barand]

you think correctly.

 

strpos() above returns 5 (counting from 0) so you want the first 5 characters, not the first 4.

 

[pre]

e m a i l @

 

0 1 2 3 4 5

 

 

Cooldude - good advice

[kenrbnsn]

You can also use explode():

<?php
$email = '[email protected]';
list($sub_email) = explode('@',$email);
echo $sub_email;
?>

 

Ken