Question

I want trim word by almost half for example

Washington

after trim it should be washi

Chicago

after trim it should be chic

Tokyo

after trim it should be tok

Answer 1

1. Use substr() function to cut off unwanted part of the string.
2. Use strlen() function to calculate the length of the string.

3. Use ceil() function to round a fraction up if the length is a odd number.

   $word = 'Tokyo';
   
   echo substr($word, 0, ceil(strlen($word) / 2));
   

If you’re using Unicode then use multibyte extension functions as PHP doesn’t support Unicode natively.