how to remove first word from a php string

Question

I'd like to remove the first word from a string using PHP. Tried searching but couldn't find an answer that I could make sense of.

eg: "White Tank Top" so it becomes "Tank Top"

Thanks

Answer 1

No need for explode or array manipulation, you can use function strstr:

echo strstr("White Tank Top"," "); //Tank Top 

UPDATE: Thanks to @Sid To remove the extra white space you can do:

echo substr(strstr("White Tank Top"," "), 1); 

Answer 2

You can use the preg_replace function with the regex ^(\w+\s) that will match the first word of a string per se:

$str = "White Tank Top"; $str = preg_replace("/^(\w+\s)/", "", $str); var_dump($str); // -> string(8) "Tank Top"