PHP String Length Example

Get the length of a string with strlen(). Edit the code below and press Run to execute it with real PHP in your browser.

Code Editor

<?php
$text = "Hello, World!";
echo "String: $text\n";
echo "Length: " . strlen($text) . " characters\n";
echo "Without spaces: " . strlen(str_replace(" ", "", $text)) . "\n";
echo "Words: " . str_word_count($text);

Output

String: Hello, World!
Length: 13 characters
Without spaces: 12
Words: 2

How this string length example works

strlen() counts bytes, which equals characters for ASCII text. Combine it with str_replace() to ignore certain characters, and use str_word_count() to count words.