how to get first two word from a sentence using php for loop-CodePudding

I am trying to get first two word from a sentence using php

$inp_val= "this is our country";

output will be : this is

// this input value has different string as Like: this, this is our, this name is mine

// i need to get only first two word or if anyone wrote only one word then i got same word but if any one wrote two or more word then it will collect only first two word..

I am trying with below code but it won't work properly..

$words = explode(' ', $inp_val);

$shop_name = "";

if (str_word_count($words) == 1) {
    $shop_name .= mb_substr($words[0], 0, 1);
 } else {
   for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i  ) {
        $w = $words[$i];
        $shop_name .= mb_substr($w, 0, 1);
      }
  }

CodePudding user response：

After exploding the input value by space (as you have done), you can use array_slice to extract the 2 first elements, then use the implode to concat the 2 elements as a string.

$inp_val   = "this is our country";
$shop_name = implode(" ", array_slice(explode(' ', $inp_val), 0, 2));
echo $shop_name;
//OUTPUT: this is

This method that uses array_slice work well for one or more words