Auth username intials in blade template

Possibly a good use for an accessor :-)

As a case you can create a method in User Model and call it in blade template

public function initials()
{
    $initials = ***your code to create this value***
    return $initials;
}

@AlexYa Looks like this is what I need. Could you possibly elaborate on your example? I'm not quite sure how to implement this. Refering me to the proper documentation works as well, I can't seem to find what I need. Thanks!

You can get the first letter of a string by just doing $string[0] - so for example you could just return $this->firstname[0] . $this->secondname[0] (or format it however you need).

@ohffs Thanks for your reply! I'm familiar with that part already :-) It's creating the method that confuses me a bit.

It's creating the method that confuses me a bit.

What confuses you ? You have a model class, put a method in it.

Everything I needed was actually here. Being sick + tired isn't the best combination, had me confused. Got it working, thanks and sorry for my confusion :-)

As @AlexYa said, you can create an initials() function in your user model:

public function initials(){
    $words = explode(" ", $this->name );
    $initials = null;
    foreach ($words as $w) {
        $initials .= $w[0];
    }
    return strtoupper($initials);
 }

Then simply call your initials() function in your blade view: {{ Auth::user()->initials() }} instead of {{ Auth::user()->name }}

@maelga please take note of the date of posts. This post was solved over a year ago.

With the new Laravel starter kits (livewire) the initials public function is used but I have firstname and lastname for users - so I needed to amend the initials script. Think I have read the above correctly but I would appreciate someone telling me if this is; a) okay b) a sensible solution c) if there is a better way given its 2025 and a lot has changed since this post was solved, because I have 2 variables specifically I think I can remove the explode - implode methods

Function in starter kits for reference

public function initials(): string { return Str::of($this->name) ->explode(' ') ->map(fn (string $name) => Str::of($name)->substr(0, 1)) ->implode('');

My code

public function initials(): string {

    $firstname = 'firstname';
    $lastname = 'lastname';

    $initials = Str::of($this->$firstname[0] . $this->$lastname[0]);
       return strtoupper ($initials);
}