function _biblio_extract_firstname_initials in Bibliography Module 6.2

grab firstname and initials which may be of form "A.B.C." or "A. B. C. " or " A B C " etc.

Parameters

$remainder: The string representing the remainder of a name.

Return value

array An array of three values: firstname, initials, prefix.

2 calls to _biblio_extract_firstname_initials()

BiblioContributorUnitTest::testGrabFirstnameInitials in tests/contributor.test

biblio_parse_author in includes/biblio.contributors.inc

Parses an author name into its component parts.

File

includes/biblio.contributors.inc, line 678

Functions related to contributors in Drupal biblio module.

Code

function _biblio_extract_firstname_initials($remainder) {
  $prefix = array();
  $firstname = $initials = '';
  $array = explode(" ", $remainder);
  foreach ($array as $value) {
    $firstChar = drupal_substr($value, 0, 1);
    if (ord($firstChar) >= 97 && ord($firstChar) <= 122) {
      $prefix[] = $value;
    }
    elseif (preg_match("/[a-zA-Z]{2,}/", trim($value))) {
      $firstnameArray[] = trim($value);
    }
    else {
      $initialsArray[] = trim(str_replace(".", " ", trim($value)));
    }
  }
  if (isset($initialsArray)) {
    $initials = implode(" ", $initialsArray);
  }
  if (isset($firstnameArray)) {
    $firstname = implode(" ", $firstnameArray);
  }
  if (!empty($prefix)) {
    $prefix = implode(" ", $prefix);
  }
  return array(
    $firstname,
    $initials,
    $prefix,
  );
}