Image Path Question

[unemployment]

How can I make the image path not have the starting slash for the $path?

 

Currently this...

function getUserAvatar($username)
{
if (file_exists("{$GLOBALS['path']}/img/${username}.png"))
{
	return "/assets/img/${username}.png";
}
else
{
	return "/assets/img/defaultuser.jpg";
}
}

 

When path is executed I need it to make

 

/assets/

 

be

 

assets/

 

I need to remove the first character from the $path variable.

 

if ($type === 'image/png'){ imagepng($this->img, $path); }

[joel24]

substr()

$variable = "/assets/img/defaultuser.jpg";

$variable = substr($variable, 1);

[.josh]

ltrim using the 2nd argument would be better, as it will remove it only if it exists.

 

$string = ltrim($string,'/');

[QuickOldCar]

or ltrim

 

<?php
$var ="/assets/img/defaultuser.jpg";
$var = ltrim($var, '/');
echo $var;
?>

beat me to it