How to Remove Elements from array in php after some given character? - php

Question

I want to Remove all the Elements from my array which is after , but I am unable to do this.
I have an array like this => ["18-08-2022, 05:08:23pm","18-08-2022, 05:09:05pm"]
and I want to print array something like this => ["18-08-2022","18-08-2022"]
I want to remove Elements after the ,
This is what I tried
<?php
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$Etime[] = $row["Etime"];
$Etime1[]=$row["Etime"];
$E2[]=substr($Etime1[],',',true);
}
$Etime = json_encode($Etime);
$Etime1=json_encode($Etime1);
echo $Etime1
?>

Answer 1

this is easy-
steps to do so-
1.Parse your array as string.
2.store that in a variable.
3. then use a if loop and use php explode funtion. explode function will seperate that string elements by the seperator in this case the "," you want to remove.
explode(string $separator, string $string)
where,
separator-The boundary string.
string-The input string.
limit
example=
$text = "hello,there";
//using explode-
var_dump( explode( ',', $input2 ) );
output=
array(2)
(
[0] => string(5) "hello"
[1] => string(5) "there"
)
more about explode() here- https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

Answer 2

Here's a simple php that generates the output you want. Since you only need date bits I have provided you with only the date bits. You can get general idea from here
$arr = ["18-08-2022, 05:08:23pm","18-08-2022, 05:09:05pm"];
//
// sample output: [ "18-08-2022", "18-08-2022" ]
//
$dateMappedToYourFormat = array_map(function($dt) {
return explode(",", $dt)[0]; // getting everything before comma
}, $arr);
echo implode(",", $dateMappedToYourFormat); //to view your result