Get the first letter of a Variable?

[Naits]

My variable is $name="Stian"; how can i getthe first letter in that variable?

 

[GIGN]

int ord (string string)


Returns the ASCII value of the first character of string. This function complements chr().


download the PHP manual - has all this stuff.

http://www.php.net/download-docs.php

[bb]

 

[Glowball]

That returns an integer (the ASCII value), you might try

substr ($name, 0, 1);