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PHP File Handling with PHP Parsing Specific Formats Reading JSON

Posted by Ran Wang
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Ran Wang
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Why use ' ' as second parameter in strpos?

In the video, the teacher retrieved sub string of the description by using:

substr($book->book_description, 0, strpos($book->book_description, ' ', 500)) . "...";

to show the part of characters above 500 as '...' But I dont understand why in the strpos function the second parameter is a space? what does that mean?

Thank you.

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

She explains in the video @ 5:27

Then for the endpoint I could just use 500, but it might cut off in the middle of the word. Instead I'll use the string position and look for the next space after 500 characters.

Syntax. strpos(string,find,start)