$firstString = "http://"; $positionFirstString = strpos(htmlspecialchars($zf_items[$i]['link']), $firstString); $firstLength = strlen($firstString); $blanc=""; $linkresult = htmlspecialchars($zf_items[$i]['link']); $linkresults = implode('', $linkresult); substr($blanc,$positionFirstString+$firstLength,$linkresult); $html = str_replace('{link}', $linkresult, $html);