Strstr show string before appearance

Question

I want to get the first bit of the string after the appearance of the needle, like this ...

$user = strstr('[e-mail]', '@', true); 

But this only works with PHP version 5.3.0, I have 5.2.9 Is there a way to get the same results?

Answer 1

list($user, $therest) = explode('@',$email);