Question

I’m having some trouble parsing a first name and last name from a string into 2 different variables.

The string is always in this format: “Smith, John” or “Doe, Jane”

Is there a function out that can split the first and last name to 2 different variables to something like…

$firstname = "John"
$lastname = "Smith"

Answer 1

Use list with explode like this:

list($firstname, $lastname) = explode(',', $yourString);

You may need to use trim to remove any whitespace from those vars.