Lastname-Firstname Inversion

inc-name-regex.php

// a little snippet instead of the_title()

      $mystring = get_the_title();
      $findme   = ',';
      $pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);
      
      if ($pos === false) {
          $regex_name = $mystring;   
      } else {         
          $firstname = strstr($mystring, ',');
          $lastname = strstr($mystring, ',', true); // As of PHP 5.3.0
          $firstname = trim( substr($firstname, 1) );
          $regex_name = $firstname." ".$lastname;
      }
      
// now we can echo $regex_name ...

theme-usage.php

include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/name-regex.php' );
echo $regex_name;

It's probably better to write this as a function, like this: https://gist.github.com/ms-studio/8793349