how to extract a substring

[mpsn]

Hi, how do I extract a substring? I just want to store "car" in a variable for other uses:

 

Here is the original string:

car/red/blue/gun/hit

 

Any help much appreciated!

[DWilliams]

In that specific example you could do

 

$car = substr('car/red/blue/gun/hit', 0, 3);

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[Pikachu2000]

Not enough information.

[mpsn]

I figured it out, if I have:

$originalString=car/red/blue/gun/hit

then just use:

 

$originalStringToArray=explode("/",$originalString);

$firstItem=$originalStringToArray[0]

 

Done!