限制数据库中的echo变量

Question

i got a question, if i show my variable and the value of variable is from database, like this :

<?php echo $name ?>

so i want to echo or show my variable, but i want just the first 6 character of $name is show but the rest is not showing. and the question is how to limiting the value of variable when the value of variable is from database

if the value of $name = 'ebcdefghij';so variable will be show just 'abcdef'

is that posible to limiting the value of variable?

Answer 1

If you want to show a part of a string you can use substr: http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php In your case it would be:

echo substr($name, 0,6);