The this instead. BTW, you misunderstood the useage of substr, see
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php.
$code = 'abcdwxyz8765';
$string = array();
array_push($string,substr($code,0,4));
array_push($string, substr($code,4,4));
array_push($string, substr($code,8,4));
echo $string[0].'-
i have a 12 digit code that i want to format as follows -- it is
all numbers i tried using substr() to format it in this fassion
$code = abcdwxyz8765;
$string = array();
$string[] = substr($code,1,4);
$string[] = substr($code,5,8);
$string[] = substr($code9,12);
echo $string[0],'-',$st
