Obtain first line of a string in PHP

Question

In PHP 5.3 there is a nice function that seems to do what I want:

strstr(input,\"\\n\",true)

Unfortunately, the server runs PHP 5.2.17 and the

Answer 1

$first_line = substr($fulltext, 0, strpos($fulltext, "\n"));

or something thereabouts would do the trick. Ugly, but workable.