shorten string php 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 trim string to length

<?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';

Example 4: print only some characters of a string in php

substr(string,start,length)