RE: [PHP] Generating Logins

You can use an ereg_replace to strip out any characters that you don't want. http://www.php.net/manual/function.ereg-replace.php HTH Sam Masiello System Analyst Chek.Com (716) 853-1362 x289 smasiello@chekinc.com -----Original Message----- From: Rohan Amin [mailto:ramin@givingcapital.com] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:25 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Generating Logins Oh, I am assuming that the first name is Kate...that's where the "k" comes from. "Rohan Amin" <ramin@givingcapital.com> wrote in message news:8mcgqg$lod$1@toye.php.net... > Hello, > > I want to be able to generate a User Name given the First Name and Last > Name. > > I want the User Name to be the first initial of the first name and the first > 7 characters of the last name for a total of 8 characters. > > > Right now I have the following: > > $USER_NAME = substr($FIRST_NAME, 0, 1); > $USER_NAME .= substr($LAST_NAME, 0, 7); > > In most cases, that works fine. However, if someone has a last name such as > "O'Donnell", then the generated $USER_NAME will equal ko'donne when I would > rather have it be kodonnel. How do I get it to ignore the ' character in > the last name when generating a user name? > > > Thanks, > > Rohan :-) > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net