How to get a substring between two strings in PHP?

Answer 1

A bit improved code from GarciaWebDev and Henry Wang. If empty $start or $end is given, function returns values from the beginning or to the end of the $string. Also Inclusive option is available, whether we want to include search result or not:

function get_string_between ($string, $start, $end, $inclusive = false){
    $string = " ".$string;

    if ($start == "") { $ini = 0; }
    else { $ini = strpos($string, $start); }

    if ($end == "") { $len = strlen($string); }
    else { $len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini;}

    if (!$inclusive) { $ini += strlen($start); }
    else { $len += strlen($end); }

    return substr($string, $ini, $len);
}