Question: I currently have the string:
"/en/sports/football/"

How do I substr this string to achieve:

"/sports/football/"

Many thanks for any pointers.

Answer: 
Well, lets take a look: <http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php>

The method signature looks something like this:

> 
> string substr ( string $string , int
>  $start [, int $length ] )
> 
> 
> If length is omitted, the substring
>  starting from start until the end of
>  the string will be returned.
> 
> 
> 

So I guess we could do something like this to get characters 3 and onward. 

> 
> substr("/en/sports/football/", 3);
> 
> 
>
`explode()` on '/', discard the directory you don't want, then `implode()` on '/'