php - How to get first 5 characters from string -

how first 5 characters string using php

$mystr = "hellowordl"; 

result should this

$result = "hello"; 

for single-byte strings (e.g. us-ascii, iso 8859 family, etc.) use substr , multi-byte strings (e.g. utf-8, utf-16, etc.) use mb_substr:

// singlebyte strings $result = substr($mystr, 0, 5); // multibyte strings $result = mb_substr($mystr, 0, 5);