Question

I’m trying to take a query:

SHOW TABLES;

which will display a bunch of tables with the chat_ prefix. I want to remove the chat_ prefix from the string, format the variable (with a link), and display it.

How is this accomplished?

Answer 1

Don’t know what you mean by “link”. Iterate through your tables and replace “chat_” with an empty string to remove the prefix:

$formatted_table_name = str_replace("chat_", "", $table_name);
//... do something
$link = '<a href="#">' . $formatted_table_name .'</a>'; //add to link