You need the following functions to do this in PHP:
strpos
Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
strrpos
Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string
substr
Return part of a string
Here's the signature of the substr
function:
string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] )
The signature of the substring
function (Java) looks a bit different:
string substring( int beginIndex, int endIndex )
substring
(Java) expects the end-index as the last parameter, but substr
(PHP) expects a length.
It's not hard, to get the desired length by the end-index in PHP:
$sub = substr($str, $start, $end - $start);
Here is the working code
$start = strpos($message, '-') + 1;
if ($req_type === 'RMT') {
$pt_password = substr($message, $start);
}
else {
$end = strrpos($message, '-');
$pt_password = substr($message, $start, $end - $start);
}