虽然PHP有现成的截取字符串函数substr()，但是这个函数不能对汉字字符串进行截取，要实现这种效果还需要我们自己去编写相应的函数。汉字有多种编码，比如GB2312，UTF-8等，汉字字符串的截取需要区分这种汉字编码，下面是给出的几个解决方案。

截取GB2312中文字符串

<?php
//截取中文字符串-
function mysubstr($str, $start, $len) {
    $tmpstr = "";
    $strlen = $start + $len;
    for($i = 0; $i < $strlen; $i++) {
        if(ord(substr($str, $i, 1)) > 0xa0) {
            $tmpstr .= substr($str, $i, 2);
            $i++;
        } else
            $tmpstr .= substr($str, $i, 1);
    }
    return $tmpstr;
}
?>

截取utf8编码的多字节字符串

<?php
//截取utf8字符串
function utf8Substr($str, $from, $len)
{
    return preg_replace('#^(?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xFF][\x80-\xBF]+){0,'.$from.'}'.
                       '((?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xFF][\x80-\xBF]+){0,'.$len.'}).*#s',
                       '$1',$str);
}
?>

UTF-8、GB2312都支持的汉字截取函数

<?php
/*
Utf-8、gb2312都支持的汉字截取函数
cut_str(字符串, 截取长度, 开始长度, 编码);
编码默认为 utf-8
开始长度默认为 0
*/function cut_str($string, $sublen, $start = 0, $code = 'UTF-8')
{
    if($code == 'UTF-8')
    {
       $pa ="/[\x01-\x7f]|[\xc2-\xdf][\x80-\xbf]|\xe0[\xa0-\xbf][\x80-\xbf]|[\xe1-\xef][\x80-\xbf][\x80-\xbf]|\xf0[\x90-\xbf][\x80-\xbf][\x80-\xbf]|[\xf1-\xf7][\x80-\xbf][\x80-\xbf][\x80-\xbf]/";
        preg_match_all($pa, $string, $t_string);        if(count($t_string[0]) - $start > $sublen) return join('', array_slice($t_string[0], $start, $sublen))."...";
        return join('', array_slice($t_string[0], $start, $sublen));
    }
    else
    {
        $start = $start*2;
        $sublen = $sublen*2;
        $strlen = strlen($string);
        $tmpstr = '';        for($i=0; $i<$strlen; $i++)
        {
            if($i>=$start && $i<($start+$sublen))
            {
                if(ord(substr($string, $i, 1))>129)
                {
                    $tmpstr.= substr($string, $i, 2);
                }
                else
                {
                    $tmpstr.= substr($string, $i, 1);
                }
            }
            if(ord(substr($string, $i, 1))>129) $i++;
        }
        if(strlen($tmpstr)<$strlen ) $tmpstr.= "...";
        return $tmpstr;
    }
}
$str = "abcd需要截取的字符串";
echo cut_str($str, 8, 0, 'gb2312');
?> 

BugFree 的字符截取函数

<?php
/**
* @package     BugFree
* @version     $Id: FunctionsMain.inc.php,v 1.32 2005/09/24 11:38:37 wwccss Exp $
*
*
* Return part of a string(Enhance the function substr())
*
* @author                  Chunsheng Wang <[email][email protected][/email]>
* @param string $String the string to cut.
* @param int     $Length the length of returned string.
* @param booble $Append whether append "...": false|true
* @return string           the cutted string.
*/
function sysSubStr($String,$Length,$Append = false)
{
    if (strlen($String) <= $Length )
    {
        return $String;
    }
    else
    {
        $I = 0;
        while ($I < $Length)
        {
            $StringTMP = substr($String,$I,1);
            if ( ord($StringTMP) >=224 )
            {
                $StringTMP = substr($String,$I,3);
                $I = $I + 3;
            }
            elseif( ord($StringTMP) >=192 )
            {
                $StringTMP = substr($String,$I,2);
                $I = $I + 2;
            }
            else
            {
                $I = $I + 1;
            }
            $StringLast[] = $StringTMP;
        }
        $StringLast = implode("",$StringLast);
        if($Append)
        {
            $StringLast .= "...";
        }
        return $StringLast;
    }
}
$String = "www.nowamagic.net";
$Length = "18";
$Append = false;
echo sysSubStr($String,$Length,$Append);
?>