cut characters...

php commands

[ahmedtheking]

Is there a PHP command, similer to trim, that just cuts characters off if a limit has been reached?

[dreamcatcher]

substr will do this for you.

$string = "characters";

$new_string = substr($string, 0,5);

would print just:

chara

For more info check out:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php [php.net]

You can use it to strip from certain points, or from the beginning or end.

dc :)