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substr — Return part of a string
Description
string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] )
Returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters.
Parameters
string
The input string. Must be one character or longer.
start
If start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the start'th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string 'abcdef', the character at position 0 is 'a', the character at position 2 is 'c', and so forth.
If start is negative, the returned string will start at the start'th character from the end of string.
If string is less than or equal to start characters long, FALSE will be returned.
Examples
Example - Basic substr() usage
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1); // bcdef
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3); // bcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4); // abcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8); // abcdef
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f
// Accessing single characters in a string
// can also be achieved using "square brackets"
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0]; // a
echo $string[3]; // d
echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
?>
Or
If you want to remove HTML tags and only allow some of them you can use strip_tags function like this
$a="<div style='color: blue;'>Hallo</div>"."<div>yas!</div><img src='blabla/aa/img.png'> im fine<span> yes</span>";
$clean_html = strip_tags($a, "");
This will return the text you entered $text with no tags except
& tags You can read more about strip_tags
Source : http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php