php question

[aztecvision]

How do you trim a variable's value to allways display a certain amount of characters, no matter how long the original varialbe may be?

Example:
$var1 = "123456789";
I need to only display the first 6 characters "123456"; basically hidding 789

[woj]

echo substr($var1,0,6);

??

[aztecvision]

Thanks! I owe you a beer!

[MickeyG]

next time try google, seriously you can find anything you want to know regarding php on there. I must use it a million times a day