BuddyPress.org | Niels Pilon | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/nielspilon/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Niels Pilon. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:40:30 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f97254f3cc1b0f5206ec332d580ae145 Henry Wright replied to the topic Sorting by last name goes wrong when having multiple words as last name in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-by-last-name-goes-wrong-when-having-multiple-words-as-last-name/#post-229310 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:24:48 +0000 @nielspilon I really do think substr( strstr( u.display_name, ' ' ), 1 ) is your answer. You say there’s definitely no members returned with that in place?

]]> 88eb15ef55e01cddeaa896bc8ccef31d Henry Wright replied to the topic Sorting by last name goes wrong when having multiple words as last name in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-by-last-name-goes-wrong-when-having-multiple-words-as-last-name/#post-229298 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:09:24 +0000 @shanebp Maybe just remove the first word from the string? i.e.

strstr( 'Robin van Persie', ' ' )

which gives  van Persie. Then you just need remove the initial space:

substr( ' van Persie', 1 )

@nielspilon if the sorting is fine (van, de etc) then that is down to luck 🙂

]]> 0fdb1e0c01326f24ddb8f2aaedc91e18 Henry Wright replied to the topic Sorting by last name goes wrong when having multiple words as last name in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-by-last-name-goes-wrong-when-having-multiple-words-as-last-name/#post-229298 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:09:24 +0000 @shanebp Maybe just remove the first word from the string? i.e.

strstr( 'Robin van Persie', ' ' )

which gives  van Persie. Then you just need remove the initial space:

ltrim( ' van Persie', ' ')

@nielspilon if the sorting is fine (van, de etc) then that is down to luck 🙂

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