Parse name from full email address in PHP

Question

I would like to get name from full email address and tried htmlentities and html_entity_decode but special character < and > gives issue to get the name. As full email address is coming from array (key-value) not as a string.

Array value:

Array
(
   [ENV_MAIL] => "Project Bribara<[email protected]";
)

Tried code:

// Project email
$environment['ENV_MAIL'] = "Project Bribara<[email protected]";
$projectEmail = $environment['ENV_MAIL'];
echo $projectEmail ;
$projectName = explode("@", htmlentities($adminEmail));
echo html_entity_decode($projectName);

Expected:

"Project Bribara"

Actual:

"Project Bribara<project.bribara

How can I get the output as per expected?

Answer 1

There are a few ways that you can tackle this issue: (Demo Link)

The reason that all of the other answers fail is because you have misrepresented your input string. Your actual input string contains < which is the html entity for <. My methods below will clarify this point to future SO readers and help you to select the best approach for your project.

$environment['ENV_MAIL']="Project Bribara<[email protected]";
//                                       ^^^^ html entity causing you trouble

$decoded_string=html_entity_decode($environment['ENV_MAIL']);  // convert "&lt;" to "<"
var_export(explode('<',$decoded_string));  // generate an array of the two parts for future access

echo "\n\n";

echo "Project Name = ",strstr($decoded_string,'<',true);  // use strstr on < of decoded string with "true" param

echo "\n\n";

echo "Project Email = ",substr($decoded_string,strpos($decoded_string,'<')+1);  // use substr&strpos on <

echo "\n\n";

// or less potentially damaging to your input string...
var_export(explode('&lt;',$environment['ENV_MAIL']));

Output:

array (
  0 => 'Project Bribara',
  1 => '[email protected]',
)

Project Name = Project Bribara

Project Email = [email protected]

array (
  0 => 'Project Bribara',
  1 => '[email protected]',
)