The strlen() function

The strlen() function

The strlen() function is used to return the length of a string.
Let's find the length of a string:

<?php echo strlen("Hello world!"); ?>

The output of the code above will be:

12

The length of a string is often used in loops or other functions, when it is important to know when the string ends. (i.e. in a loop, we would want to stop the loop after the last character in the string).