strstr to show string before occurance

Question

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

$user = strstr('someemail@yahoo.com', '@', true); 

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

Answer 1

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