Get a number of characters from a string using PHP

Question

I want to grab only the first 80 characters from a string, $string, using PHP.

Is there a function for that?

possible duplicate of [How do you pull first 100 characters of a string in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/317336/how-do-you-pull-first-100-characters-of-a-string-in-php) and many others. — shamittomar, Dec 25 '10 at 06:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 25 '10 at 06:20

1

I think you can use

substr($string, 0, 80);

edited Dec 25 '10 at 06:20

Naveed

answered Dec 25 '10 at 06:18

Ragnar123

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '10 at 06:18

1

$result = substr($string, 0, 80);

answered Dec 25 '10 at 06:18

Hamish

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

0

The text below was written by Nick Shepherd on the topic above.

$string = 'Foo Bar!';
$from   = 2;
$to     = 5;
$final_string = substr($string, $from, $to - $from);

or

$string = 'Foo Bar!';
$start  = 2;
$length = 5;
$final_string = substr($string, $start, $length);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Community

answered Dec 25 '10 at 06:17

Gondim

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 04 '21 at 01:23

0

Try the substr function like,

 $result = substr($string, 0, 80);

edited Nov 04 '21 at 01:23

Peter Mortensen

answered Dec 25 '10 at 06:19

Nik

4 Answers4