I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.
Is there a function that can do this easily?
For example:
$string1 = "I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.";
$string2 = 100charfunction($string1);
print $string2
To get:
I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string vari
$small = substr($big, 0, 100);
For String Manipulation here is a page with a lot of function that might help you in your future work.
You could use substr, I guess:
$string2 = substr($string1, 0, 100);
or mb_substr for multi-byte strings:
$string2 = mb_substr($string1, 0, 100);
You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance '...' to indicate that it was shortened. (I guess there's allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted...)