Question

In my project I get back a name of a person through a php response. And I store that name in a variable.

So the name could be like James Smith or Sakhu Ali Khan or anything else.

I want to replace the spaces between the names with “.”

Suppose I get the James Smith and I will save it in $userName

Now I want to parse $userName and then replace the spaces with “.” so my

$parsedUserName == James.Smith

Can anyone tell me how to do this in php. I am not very much familiar with text parsing.

Best
Zeeshan

Answer 1

You can use the str_replace() function to do this:

$parsedUserName = str_replace(' ', '.', $userName);

If you’re using UTF-8 or another multibyte character set then you should use mb_str_replace() instead.

$parsedUserName = mb_str_replace(' ', '.', $userName);