How to extract username from an e-mail address string

Posted on September 5, 2008, under PHP,  Bookmark it

If you need to extract the username from an e-mail address string then this snippet can help you. For instance, you can use this function inside a loop, while selecting emails from a database.

<?php
function getUsernameFromEmail($email)
{
$find = '@';
$pos = strpos($email, $find);

$username = substr($email, 0, $pos);

return $username;
}

$email = 'thecoder@domain.com';

$username = getUsernameFromEmail($email);

echo $username; // thecoder
?>

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  • September 5, 2008
  • article by Gabriel C.
  • 2 comments

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2 Replies to "How to extract username from an e-mail address string"

  1. Bline
    July 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM
    Reply

    $mail = ‘test@domain.com’;
    list( $username , $domain ) = explode( ‘@’ , $mail );
    echo $username; // Prints “test”

    1. Gabriel
      July 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM
      Reply

      Yes, that is a good alternative method to extract the ‘username’. There are also other ones too.

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