Split a string at a certain number of characters?

[shortysbest]

I have a large amount of text, (text can be different at any time), I count the number of characters in the string,and divide it by 2 so that half of the text will be in one variable, the other half in the other, however I am not sure how to get the split function, or whichever function to split it by the number of characters.

 

example:

 

$text = "lorem ispum dolar sit amet, consecterur adiscing elit. Donec dictum placerat sapien, in eliefend liber";
$cut = strlen($text)/2;
//(here's where i cannot get it to work/do not know which function to use and how to use it)
//but what I want it to do is to split it half way.

[BlueSkyIS]

substr() will do it

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[kenrbnsn]

You probably want to look at the functions str_split, chunk_split, and/or substr.

 

Ken