Returning a certain number of characters?

brianb

Hello,

$string = "This is the string I want to shorten to a certain length";

I want to only return the first 10 characters of my $string. So the output would look something like:

This is th

How do you do sucha thing?

Any coding examples are greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

pjleonhardt

substr()

$string = "This is the string I want to shorten to a certain length"; 

$string = substr($string, 0, 10);


echo $string;

should display:

This is th

TheIceman5

didnt you just post this in another forum and its already been answered? or is it someone else asking same question due to their disability to search?

brianb

Thanks PJ.