Question

Basic question for PHP experts out there.

I’m writing a page where the variable I receive will be somebody’s full name, the two words will be separated by a space. Thus, I know that the second word, after the space will be the last name. I would like to retrieve this last name and hold it in a variable.

For example: $EditorName = "John Doe"

I would like to have the result $LastName = "Doe"

Can I use some variation of the split in the PHP manual.

I would be grateful for your help.

Answer 1

$names=explode(' ',$EditorName);
$LastName=$names[1]

PHP Manual: explode

If you need really last(not second) name you should use

$LastName=array_pop($names) instead