How do I replace part of a string in PHP?

Question

I am trying to get the first 10 characters of a string and want to replace space with '_'.

I have

  $text = substr($text, 0, 10);
  $text = strtolower($text);

But I am not sure what to do next.

I want the string

this is the test for string.

become

this_is_th

Answer 1

Simply use str_replace:

$text = str_replace(' ', '_', $text);

You would do this after your previous substr and strtolower calls, like so:

$text = substr($text,0,10);
$text = strtolower($text);
$text = str_replace(' ', '_', $text);

If you want to get fancy, though, you can do it in one line:

$text = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '_', substr($text, 0, 10)));

Answer 2

You can try

$string = "this is the test for string." ;
$string = str_replace(' ', '_', $string);
$string = substr($string,0,10);

var_dump($string);

Output

this_is_th

Answer 3

This is probably what you need:

$text = str_replace(' ', '_', substr($text, 0, 10));

Answer 4

Just do:

$text = str_replace(' ', '_', $text)

Answer 5

You need first to cut the string in how many pieces you want. Then replace the part that you want:

 $text = 'this is the test for string.';
 $text = substr($text, 0, 10);
 echo $text = str_replace(" ", "_", $text);

This will output:

this_is_th