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

you can split the string using explode()

$email = 'hello@email.com';
/*split the string bases on the @ position*/
$parts = explode('@', $email);
$namePart = $parts[0];