Limit ammount of characters with php?

[Tom-743]

Im trying to limit a string to 10 characters, but i can't work out how to do it. Ive tried string pad but it can only be used to make the string bigger;

$shorten = "hihihihihihihihihihiihhihihihihihihih";
$shorten = str_pad ( $shorten, 10 );
echo $shorten

That just echos "hihihihihihihihihihiihhihihihihihihih". Is there any function to shrink a string?

[Invent]

Hi,

You could use the function substr.

For example:




$wat = "thisstringisover10characters";
$wat = substr( $wat, 0, 10 );

echo $wat; // outputs: thisstring



Thanks,
Invent

[Tom-743]

Thats exactly what i was looking for, Thanks :) I will +rep you when i get my other account back.

[Invent]

Hi,

Good to hear thats what you needed :)

Thanks,
Invent