with PHP you can do many things, if you have a string, you can determine how many character or letters a string has with the strlen() function. I have created this tutorial to help anyone who is confused on how you can find out how many characters are in a string or a database field.

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so, to show you the strlen() in action copy and past this code and save it as string-length.php and upload to your php website and open it with your browser. you can use notepad in if you have windows or you can use any of your favorite text editor. i use notepad cuz its easy.

so here is the code:

CODE:
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<h1>Show How Many Character are in a string in PHP</h1><hr>
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<p>This is the value of my variable called $string: </p>
<p class="style1">I am writing this tutorial to show you how you can cut down on the words with php. if you need php web hosting, our friends at webune.com have the right solution for you. dedicated hosting is the best way to go if you have a large website. as you can see, this string is pretty long.</p>
<p>Now this is the output of <span class="style2"><span class="style3">echo</span> strlen($string)</span></p>
<p>NOTE: 0 is the start of the string and 100 is the end. so i am telling php that display the characters in the string starting at 0 and stop at the 100th character.</p>
<p>&nbsp; </p>
<p><?
$string ="I am writing this tutorial to show you how you can cut down on the words with php. if you need php web hosting, our friends at webune.com have the right solution for you. dedicated hosting is the best way to go if you have a large website. as you can see, this string is pretty long.";
echo "<span class=\"style3\"> \$string has a total of ".strlen($string)." characters</span>";
?>
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that's it, save it and upload to your site, you will see how it works.