I need urgent help - get first character from word.

Hello. I am creating crawler but I am stucked at stupid thing.

<?php
$string = "hello";

PHP:

how could I get firs character of string, in this case "h" ?

EDIT: I got it,

sorry

 

you have the answer
substr($string,0,1);

 

so why are you replying ?
Thx anyway

 

just a tip:
you can also do this

$string = "hello";
echo $string[0];

Code (markup):

and you might need to check if it's not empty:

if(!empty($string)) {...}
//or
if(isset($string[0])) {...}

Code (markup):

 

I'm just posting to inform you of bad practice. The second and third parameters are int, not string so doing something like substr($string, "0", "1"); is wrong.

 

okay, thanks for warn