Easy String format

[rulian]

I'm sure this is easy, but I cant find a string fuction to do this:

I need to translate this:

$name="firstname lastname";

into

$name="<B>F</B><i>irstname</i>[space]<B>L</B><i>astname</i>";

I can strip and uppercase the first letter okay, but I cant find a way to distinguish the first name from the last name, I need a way to break the string by space, I thought I could do that with either str_replace or substr, but neitehr seem to do it.

[IceD]

You need something like this:

$data = "fname lname";
echo preg_replace("/^(.)(.*) (.)(.*)$/Ue", "'<b>' . strtoupper('\\1') . '</b><i>\\2</i> <b>' . strtoupper('\\3') . '</b><i>\\4</i>'", $data);

[rulian]

it worked, thank you