用逗号分隔长字符串全名中的名字和姓氏？

Question

I have a column to store the authors of acticles. The number of author is depend on each article (from 1 to 20 authors or more). An example with 4 authors:

$author = "Jame Bond; John Thomas Dier; Calos Teves; Ronaldo Rondigez";

How to replace the first space in single full name by (,) and (;) by and like this string:

$author = "Jame, Bond and John, Thomas Dier and Calos, Teves and Ronaldo, Rondigez";

I used this code to replace (;) into AND

$author = str_replace(";"," and",$author);

Thanks,

Answer 1

Try this

$author = "Jame Bond; John Thomas Dier; Calos Teves; Ronaldo Rondigez";
$tempArr=explode(";",$author);
foreach($tempArr as $value)
{
   $temp[]= preg_replace('/ /', ',', trim($value), 1);
} 
echo $author = implode(" and ",$temp);