Question

Here is the problem : I want to split a string to have the name and the first name, but my two variable are empty and i don’t understant why… Can someone help me ? This my code :

 $nom_aut1 = "";
 $prenom_aut2 = "";
 //$auteur1 is already initialized

  for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($auteur1); ++$i)
  {
    if ($auteur1[$i] != ' ') continue;

    for ($j = 0; $j < $i; ++$j)
    {
      $nom_aut1 .= $auteur[$j];
    }

    for ($j = $i+1; $j < strlen($auteur1); ++$j)
    {
      $nom_aut1 .= $auteur1[$j];
    }

    break;
  }
  echo '"'.$nom_aut1.'.'.$prenom_aut1.'"';

Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

Do you want to split a name into first and last name based on a space? Why not just do this:

$names = explode(" ",$name);

If $name = "Hello World"

$names will be an array such that

$names[0] = "Hello"
$names[1] = "World" 

This way, if there is a middle name, you can get that as well.

You can do it this way:

$names = explode(" ",$name);

if (count($names) == 1) //only first name
{
    $first = $names[0];
    $last = "";
}
else if (count($names) == 2) //only first and last name
{
    $first = $names[0];
    $last = $names[1];
}
else    //one or more middle names were provided
{
    $first = $names[0];
    $last = $names[count($names)-1];

    for($i=1;$i<count($names)-1;$i++)
        $middle .= $names[$i] . ' ';
    $middle = trim($middle);  
}

So, if $name = "Hello Foo Bar World"

$first = "Hello"
$last = "World"
$middle = "Foo Bar"