[mcrob]

Hey there hows everyone doing. Basically Im putting together a CMS for my new website thats coming out soon, where users can upload tutorials, interviews etc.
Im trying too get the first letter of a word so I can insert that into the database for search result purposes

Example. The name of a tutorial is sessions. In that word sessions the beginning word is S. How can I get the first letter of the word and delete the rest of the letters from that word.

[mjac]

Code:

$word = 'sessions';
$letter = $word[0];

The $letter would be s.

[mcrob]

mjac your the man

Thank you

I now know how too do is with ease

[FiRe]

Originally Posted by mjac

Code:

$word = 'sessions';
$letter = $word[0];

The $letter would be s.

weird... how does that work? $word hasnt been set as an array or anything

[NeverMind]

Originally Posted by FiRe

weird... how does that work? $word hasnt been set as an array or anything

it's called magic

think of strings as an array of chars (like in C)
each char is stored in an element of an array.

[Acecool]

Actuatly
$word{0} not []

[hermawan]

$word[0] is work also