removing @email.com from string in php

Question

I want to just get the left half of an email address ( the username part of username@email.com ), so stripping the @ and any characters after it.

Answer 1

If you have PHP5.3 you could use strstr

$email = 'username@email.com';

$username = strstr($email, '@', true); //"username"

If not, just use the trusty substr

$username = substr($email, 0, strpos($email, '@'));