php only first 4 characters code example
Example 1: php get first 5 characters of string
$result = substr("Hello How are you", 0, 5);
Example 2: substr() php
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1);
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3);
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4);
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8);
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1);
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0];
echo $string[3];
echo $string[strlen($string)-1];
?>
//substr() function returns certain bits of a string
Example 3: php get first character of string
$firstStringCharacter = substr("hello", 0, 1);