chop down to given amount of chars

[pspeakman]

Hello,
I need to take a string and reduce it to a given amount of characters, chop and trim seem to take a substring to chop at but i need it to be a set number or characters can anyone help?
Thanks

[Ludichrist]

$numChars = 5;
$newString = substr($string,0,$numChars);

Check here for more string handling function: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

[pspeakman]

Thanks, thats perfect.

[Ludichrist]

You're welcome 😃