PHP substring remove everything in a string after certain character

Question

I want to echo a string but I want to clean it up a little before echoing it from a database as it contains too much information.

I think that I need to use substring and possibly strpos for it.

This is what I have at the moment but I cant seem to figure it out:

implode(
    ';<br>',
    unserialize($row['postvars'])[substr('stuff', 0, strpos('stuff', '('))]
)

So "stuff" is the string I want to echo and it looks something like this:

I want to remove evreything after the first bracket.

Answer 1

echo strstr("Fix kõneside ja/või -interneti (Ärikliendi internet, voip telefonid jne)", '(', true);

Answer 2

you cat use a regular expression

$string ="Fix kõneside ja/või -interneti (Ärikliendi internet, voip telefonid jne)";
$output = preg_replace( '/(?=\().*/', '', $string );

echo $output;

regular_expressions in php

Answer 3

$pos = strpos($teenused, '(');
$n = strlen($teenused) - $pos;
$rest = substr("$teenused", 0, -$n);