PHP obtiene el primer carácter de la cadena
$firstStringCharacter = substr("hello", 0, 1);
Grepper
$firstStringCharacter = substr("hello", 0, 1);$words = explode(" ", $string);
$firstname = $words[0];
$lastname = $words[1];
$third_word = $words[2];function getFirstWord($string)
{
$arr = explode(' ', trim($string));
return isset($arr[0]) ? $arr[0] : $string;
}