How to extract the user name from the email ID using PHP ? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 26 May, 2021

Given a string email address, extract the username.

Input: ‘priyank@geeks.com’ Output: priyank

Input: ‘princepriyank@gfg.com’ Output: princepriyank

Approach 1: Using PHP strstr() to extract the username from the email address.

In this, “@” symbol is the separator for the domain name and user name of the email address. The strstr() PHP function is used to search for the first occurrence of a string i.e. "@" inside another string i.e. email address to get the username as result.

• Step 1: Define a variable and store the value of the email address in it.
  $email= 'priyank@geeks.com';
• Step 2: Get the username by slicing the string till the first occurrence of '@' using this line username=strstr(username=strstr(username=strstr(email,'@',true);
• Step 3: Display the username using an echo statement.
  echo $username."\n";

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Approach 2: Using PHP explode() function.

In this, we harness the fact that the “@” symbol is the separator for the domain name and user name of the email address. So explode() is used to break a string into an array by a separator "@".

• Step 1: Define a variable email and store the value of email address in it.
  $email= 'princepriyank@geeks.com';
• Step 2: Get the username by exploding (dividing) the string using '@' as a separator and store the first part in the variable username. parts=explode("@",parts = explode("@",parts=explode("@",email); username=username = username=parts[0];
• Step 3: Display the username using this code.
  echo $username."\n";

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