Question

I have this string:

$string = 'foo bar php haystack needle'

And i want to get the next 6 characters after php , so i would get:

haysta

How can i do that?

Greetings

Answer 1

You have just to find the position of 'php' and then add do a substr() on that position +3 (for skipping the 'php' itself):

$needle = 'php';
$str = substr($string, strpos($string, $needle) + strlen($needle), 6);

The third parameter (6) is the length of the substring you want.