how to make long string shorter

[nighthawk]

Is there a php function that can make long string shorter, for example take only first 10 characters and delete the rest?

Or I will have to make my own function - maybe explode string into array and then take first 10 characters and convert them back to string.

[webmaster]

You can use substr like this:

[php]<?php
$var = "123451234512345";
echo substr($var, 0, 4);
?>[/php]

It should print out the first 10 characters (1234512345)

[nighthawk]

Thank you