Help with simplepie and twitter feed

I'm trying to add a retweet button to a small page I am creating using simplepie to parse a twitter feed, anyways I ran into a small problem. Currently I am using this to should the authors name:

<?php $author = $item->get_author(); echo $author->get_name(); ?>

Code (markup):

But it displays myusername (Bob Smith) so the retweet ends up being "RT @myusername (Bob Smith) then the tweet"

Anyone know how I can strip out the (Bob Smith) part and just leave myusername?

Thanks in advance!

 

you can use explode:

<?php
$author = $item->get_author();
$author = explode(' ',$author->get_name());
$author = $author[0];
echo $author;
?>

PHP:

 

Hey that worked. What does explode do?

 

explode split a string into array

example:

<?php
$string = "one#two#three";
$array = explode("#", $string);

echo $array[0]; //Output: one

echo $array[1]; //Output: two

echo $array[2]; //Output: three

PHP:

http://www.php.net/explode

 

Ahhh ok, thanks for the explaination.