Joomla Greeting Name to only show first word

Question

In the Joomla (v3) logout form, it is showing the registered users full name they registered with.

echo JText::sprintf('MOD_LOGIN_HINAME', htmlspecialchars($user->get('name')));

Rather than showing:

Fred Bloggs

I only want to show:

Fred

What is the easiest way to edit the above to show just the first word from the $user->get('name')

Answer 1

Before doing anything, please don't override the file. Instead, create a Template Override so that when you update Joomla, your changes are not overridden.

Once done, you can use strstr which finds ehe first occurrence of a string, like so:

$name = strstr($user->get('name'), ' ', true);
echo JText::sprintf('MOD_LOGIN_HINAME', htmlspecialchars($name));