How to remove the first character of string in PHP?

Question

$str=\':this is a applepie :) \';

How to use PHP, Remove the first character :

Answer 1

The code works well for me.

$str = substr($str ,-(strlen($str)-1));

Maybe, contribute with answers too.

Answer 2

you can use the sbstr() function

$amount = 1;   //where $amount the amount of string you want to delete starting  from index 0
$str = substr($str, $amount);

Answer 3

To remove every : from the beginning of a string, you can use ltrim:

$str = '::f:o:';
$str = ltrim($str, ':');
var_dump($str); //=> 'f:o:'

Answer 4

$str = substr($str, 1);

See PHP manual example 3

echo substr('abcdef', 1);     // bcdef

Note:

unset($str[0]) 

will not work as you cannot unset part of a string:-

Fatal error: Cannot unset string offsets

Answer 5

Here is the code

$str = substr($str, 1); 

echo $str;

Output:

this is a applepie :)

Answer 6

use mb_substr function

    mb_substr("我abc", 1);