Cut string before a symbol with php

Question

How can I cut the string before '(' sign with php

For example: $a = "abc dec g (gold)";

How can I cut the string become only "abc dec g"??

I tried to used this strstr($a, '(', true) but error display.

Answer 1

You could do this, using explode:

list($what_you_want,) = explode('(', $str, 2);

Or you could also do this, using substr and strpos:

$what_you_want = substr($str, 0, strpos($str, '('));

The reason you got the error using strstr is because the last argument is not available unless you have PHP 5.3.0 or later.

Answer 2

$a=substr($a, 0, strpos($a, '('));