Re: sorry...probably too easy
| From: | Matthew Crouch | Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2001 19:19:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: sorry...probably too easy | ||
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solved my own problem.
if anyone else needs it, the function is substr($string, firstposition,
number)
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/StringTheory/page4.html
Mateo The Db Guy wrote:
> i'm fairly new to php, and thank you in advance for helping.
> is there a function that will extract the first character from a mysql
> result and put it into a variable?
> the goal is to make one of these browse-by-alpha lists
>
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> A
> Adam
> Alethea
> Arnie
> B
> Billy
> Buster
> ...
>
> where all the names come from the mysql query, and the anchors are
> automatically built where they need to be.