How To Limit Characters In A String In PHP Scripts Code

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Mon Jun 25, 2007

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hi, im fairly new to php, and i was wondering if its possible to limit the numbers of letter or numbers (characters) in a string. for example, i have this sample code string:

$string = "i have alot of words here and want to make it shorter";

ok, lets say i only want to show the first 15 characters from this string, how would i do that?

Webune

Mon Jun 25, 2007

you would do it like this:

echo substr($string, 0,15);

the output will display something like this:

OUTPUT:

i have alot of

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nitesh

Thu May 03, 2012

thanks a lot

Sweet

Wed Aug 26, 2009

this should help. it uses substr() but since length of a string my very it checks the lengh of the string to show only the first 300 characters.\r\n\r\n timestampstudios /toolbox/tutorials/limit-characters

https://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/how-to-limit-characters-in-a-string-in-php-t1606.html

rob

Thu Feb 28, 2008

yes, this is very helpful.

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