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[gdumond]

hello.. i am trying to make a username generator using the last name of the user the first name initial. then adding @ and the company name initials. i think i need to make character arrays for the company name but i am alittle rusty on how to accomplish this. example of this would be this

first name= greg
last name= dumond
company name = crispus attucks

desired username= dumondg@ca

anyone have an idea that might set me straight on this?

thank you in advanced for your help

[kidestranged]

I think this should work:

$fname=greg;
$lname=dumone;
$cname=crispus attucks;
$cname_array = explode(" ", $cname);
if (count($cname_array)>0) {
$++i
$cname_formated.="cname_array[$i];
}

$username=$lname.substr($fname,0,1)."@".$cname_formated;

[cordex]

$fn="greg";
$ln="dumond";
$conam = "crispus attucks";

$co=explode(" ",$conam);
foreach($co as $co2)
$cst.= $co2[0];
$usnam = $ln.$fn[0]."@".$cst;

echo $usnam ."<BR>";

[cordex]

beat me by 20 seconds - not fair!

[[deleted]]

something like this?
$sFirstName = 'greg';
$sLastName = 'dumond';
$sCompanyName = 'crispus attucks';

$sUserName = $sLastName . $sFirstName[0];
$iPos = 0;
$sUserName .= '@'.$sCompanyName[$iPos];
while ($iPos = strpos($sCompanyName, ' ', $iPos+1))
{
$sUserName .= $sCompanyName[$iPos+1];
}
echo $sUserName;

[kidestranged]

Thanks guys. I just ran my script and realized that there were some mistakes. You guys posted a proper solution before I could repost the working version.

[kidestranged]

My working versoin.
Vincent - what's strpos? the manual's explanation is a little confusing.

<?php
$i=0;
$fname="greg";
$lname="dumone";
$cname="crispus attucks";
$cname_array = explode(" ", $cname);
for($arrayLoop="0";$arrayLoop <= count($cname_array);$arrayLoop++){
$cname_final.=substr($cname_array[$arrayLoop],0,1);
}

$username= $lname . substr($fname,0,1) . "@" . $cname_final;
echo "$username";
?>

[[deleted]]

I thought if using explode too, but I decided there had to be a less memoryt-hungry solution :-)

strpos() will find an occurence of a string inside another string, and you can tell it where to start searching.
so:
strpos('foobar', 'b', 2)
will return the position of 'b' in 'foobar', and start looking at character 3 (position 2=character 3)

it will return 3, because the 'b' is in position 3 of the string (fourth character)

Small note about your code:
for($arrayLoop="0";

$arrayLoop is an integer, so no quotes around the zero!

[kidestranged]

Thanks Vincent.
I'm sure that will come in handy someday. Also $firstname[0] is pretty cool as well. I didn't know you could do that. You always come up with the most concise solutions. These boards are great, you learn something new everyday. For this example, I don't really understand why you would want a user name formatted like an invalid Email address but maybe it makes sense for his site.
Thanks for the reply,
Mark

[[deleted]]

🙂