[SOLVED] *'ing Information?

[Snooble]

I have the user's phone number in a database i know how to echo the phone number to the user but i want to replace the first "however many" digits with *'s. Like they do with credit cards etc.

 

Anyone know?

 

Snooble

[Balmung-San]

Try:

 

substr_replace($phone, "*", 0, strlen($phone) - X)

 

Where X is the number of digits you wish to show.

 

Also, if it's seperated by anything this will replace those characters. However, if it's universally seperated you can substr_replace each area. For a number like (123) 456-7890 to show only last 4:

 

substr_replace($phone, "*", 1, 3)

substr_replace($phone, "*", 6, 3)

 

This will show: (***) ***-7890

 

At least it should. <.<

[Snooble]

i dont get anything outputted to the browser?!? Do i need to echo something special?

 

Thanks,

 

Snooble

[HuggieBear]

Yeah, are the numbers all in the same format? e.g (12345) 123456 or something similar?

 

Regards

Huggie

[Snooble]

it's simply. 1234567890123456

 

for a credit card.

 

I need to be able to show it as:

 

************3456

I'm storing the card number as: $list['CCNO']

 

and my current code which returns nothing is:

 

substr_replace($list['CCNO'], "*", 0, strlen($list['CCNO']) - ;

 

The page loads and everything but i get a blank space in place of the ccno.

 

Thanks Hugs you genius lol,

 

Snoobs

 

[Ninjakreborn]

It has to be in an echo of some sort, or in a variable.

Examples

<?php
// example 1
echo substr_replace($list['CCNO'], "*", 0, strlen($list['CCNO']) - ;
// example 2
$temp = substr_replace($list['CCNO'], "*", 0, strlen($list['CCNO']) - ;
echo $temp;
?>

[Snooble]

lol. Yes you were right, i needed to echo the command, apologies. Thanks for your help!