Remove first four characters from title

[Roych]

Hello

I'm trying to remove first four characters from a title field (or custom text field), how would I do this?

I have titles like (they are imported with csv and numbers are for automatic categorising sort so they have to be there)

01 - Category1
02 - Category2
03 - Category3

I only want to output the Category1, category2, etc...

Any help appreciated

Thank you
R

[horst]

The PHP function substr() can be used to start after the 4. character. You can use it in your template file or create a little textformatter module.

(Sorry im on mobile, no link to the PHP manual provided.)

[kongondo]

@horstbeat me to it ?.

Two options:

Option 1: substr() https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php (+ trim() only if needed) edit.

<?php namespace ProcessWire;

$originalString = '01 - Category1';
// will remove the space after 01 - for you as well
$str = substr($originalString, 5); 
// debug
// d($str,'substr');

Option 2: array explode() + trim()

<?php namespace ProcessWire;

$originalString = '01 - Category1';
// explode the string on the hyphen ('-')
// this creates an array
$str2Array =  explode("-",$originalString);
// our string is in the second position
// we get it and remove spaces on each side
$str2 = trim($str2Array[1]);
// debug
// d($str2Array,'$str2Array');
// d($str2,'str2');

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by kongondo
typos

[Roych]

Uff, that simple ? I was overthinking everything. ?

Thank you very much ?

R

[Nicolas]

Hi,

At what time do you want to remove thosecharacters: when importing the data, when displaying the title on the frontend ?
depending on your need this could be achieed with a substr PHP function (when displaying the title on the frontend) or via a hook when importing/saving the title.

[kongondo]

7 hours ago, Roych said:

Uff, that simple

I fixed some typos in my code, by the way, in case you didn't see them ?.

[Roych]

4 hours ago, kongondo said:

I fixed some typos in my code, by the way, in case you didn't see them ?.

I only used "substr($title, 5)" string and works just fine. ?

Thank you

R