Question

I have this in PHP

$string="Thisissomekindofstringiwantthislolipop";

I want new string like this

$string="iwantthis";

But i have more string similar

$string1="Thisissomekindofstrigqqqqqqqqqkokiki";

And new string

 $string1="qqqqqqqqq";

The value of letters at beggining is always the same, and i always need new string with same letters count, is posible to do that?

Txanks in advance

Answer 1

If you want to cut the string you should take a look on substr.
You can then cut the unneeded parts:

<?php
$string="Thisissomekindofstringiwantthislolipop";
echo substr($string, 22, 9); // returns 'iwantthis'
?>

Update because of your comment:

You can also split a string by a delimiter (here: with explode). E.g.

<?php
$string = "vimeo.com/24076588";
$parts = explode("/", $string);
echo $parts[1]; // prints 24076588
?>

Or even nicer. Just extracting the numeric id from the URL with a regular expression using preg_match_all:

<?php
$string = "http://vimeo.com/24076588";
preg_match_all('/[\d]+/i',$string, $result); 
print_r($result);  
?>

This prints out

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => 24076588
        )

)