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Separating VARCHARs or TEXTs

 
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Separating VARCHARs or TEXTs
Inertia
post 4 May, 2008 - 03:58 PM
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What if I had a field in a sign-up form where the user was asked for their full name instead of their first and last name in separate fields.

How would I separate their first and last names using PHP?

So, for example, if I wanted to welcome users to a website using only their full name, the code would just use their first name, and not display their last name.

Also, how would I do something similar using TEXT, where a user inputs different words separated by commas (,). Then the code would be able to display each individual word pr phrase separately according to where the commas are?
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post 4 May, 2008 - 07:01 PM
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Hmm.... try tokenizing.

php.net/strtok


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Accepting input that way is very unpredictable. However as spearfish said you can tokenize, but the easiest way is just use explode().

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$nameArray = explode(',',$fullName);
$firstName = $nameArray[0];
$lastName = $nameArray[1];

php.net/explode
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