Laravel 5.2 Split String First Name Last Name
<p>I have a string passed from a form which is full name.</p>

<p>in my database I store first name and last name.. I've split the string using the following:</p>

<pre><code>$name = explode(" ", $request-&gt;name);
$lastname = array_pop($name);
$firstname = implode(" ", $name);
</code></pre>

<p>this works great, however, if the user doesn't enter a surname in the field then the above doesn't work as the lastname becomes the first.</p>

<p>Am I missing something?</p>