Question

I am getting a textbox value from a form, i which the customer inputs his full name.

So it is FirstName and LastName, Now when he inputes his/her name in the textbox the value is sent through $_POST and get stored in a variable $name.

Now i have two fields in my database, one is first_name and another is last_name.

The last_name will never contain any value which includes space.

For example: it cant be Doe Doe, it has to be Doe only.

Where as in first_name field, spaces are allowed, For example user name could be John or John Mennon.

Therefore we can say that we have a first_name in mysql table field John Mennon and last_name be Doe.

Now when user input this value as John Mennon Doe, i want to get the last value after spaces as my last_name i.e. Doe and remain all to be my first_name i.e. John Mennon.

How can i get these two values out of the submitted value stored in a variable called $name?

As after getting these values i’ll match them both separately from mysql database and let user do the other job.

Answer 1

$parts = explode(' ', trim($_POST['name']));
$lastName = array_pop($parts);
$firstName = implode(' ', $parts);