PHP obtiene los primeros 5 caracteres de la cadena
$result = substr("Hello How are you", 0, 5); //first 5 chars "Hello"
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$result = substr("Hello How are you", 0, 5); //first 5 chars "Hello"$firstStringCharacter = substr("hello", 0, 1);function getFirstWord($string)
{
$arr = explode(' ', trim($string));
return isset($arr[0]) ? $arr[0] : $string;
}i love my india