Question

I have a simple php question.

in my php, I have this:

$variable = 'howareyou';

is it possible to somehow modify the code so it only counts up to 6th character of the variable?

so after, when echo’d

it would say howare instead of howareyou.

I need to filter it with a number, like 5th or 6th. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Just use substring.

$variable = substr($variable, 0, 6)

The syntax is substr(string, start, length) and remember that these are zero indexed.