Question

How to remove the first word away in Smarty from a string, that looks like:

$variable = "Word Quick brown fox";

And make it look like this afterwards on the output:

$variable = "Quick brown fox";

Is there a way to do this without modifiers? I know you can make custom modifier and then use $variable|customModifier and get what you want but I thought maybe there is already inbuilt solution for that?

Answer 1

As Tyler points out, this should be done in your business logic, like so:

1. explode() on a space to create an array of words
2. Remove the first entry with array_shift() (corresponding to the first word in the sentence)
3. Join it back together with implode()

Here is an example:

$words = explode( ' ', $variable);
array_shift( $words);
$variable = implode( ' ', $words);