striping for 3 characters

[NZ_Kiwis]

Hi,

My code is taking info from a txt box (from Visual Basic) for for many reasons it's adding <p> at the start of my text

for example $body being the code i want to add to my sql db.

$body = "<p>blaa blaa blaa</p>";

I want to remove just the first <p> how can i do this??

[bradgrafelman]

Use [man]substr/man to get the string starting after the first 3 characters:

$body = "<p>blaa blaa blaa</p>";
echo substr($body, 3); // blaa blaa blaa</p>