reduce string length php code example

Example 1: php get first 5 characters of string

$result = substr("Hello How are you", 0, 5); //first 5 chars "Hello"

Example 2: take last four digits php

$newstring = substr($dynamicstring, -7);

Example 3: php get first character of string

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

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

substr(string,start,length)