php get substring from string code example

Example 1: php get first character of string

$firstStringCharacter = substr("hello", 0, 1);

Example 2: php nth characters from end of string

$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, 1); // returns 'd'

Example 3: php get part of string

substr ( $string , $start , $length  );

/**Returns the extracted part of string;
  *or FALSE on failure, or an empty string
  */

Example 4: only display part of string php

substr('abcdef', 1);     // bcdef
substr('abcdef', 1, 3);  // bcd
substr('abcdef', 0, 8);  // abcdef
substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f