php function advise

[ExpendableDecoy]

Hi there,

I am currently writing a shoutbox script for my site which partly requires an ability to message individual users.

For example:

expendabledecoy@ hi there this is a test

So basically I need to find a function that searches for the first @ in the message, then rips the username "expendabledecoy" prior to the first @ from the msg (to then be used in a mysql query for the name) and finally removes the "expendabledecoy@" altogether from the message.

I resume strpos would be used to find the first occurance of the @ symbol but I'm unsure how to rip the string before it and then how to strip the username@ from the rest of the message.

Any idea's?.

Thanks in advance. 🙂

[kkobashi]

Maybe try something like this... a lot easier. Assuming the username is the first token in the shoutbox string and you keep it consistent:

$tokens = explode("@", $strShoutbox);
$username = trim($tokens[0]);

Not efficient, but gets the job done.