Replace all characters of string to asterisks except first and last characters in PHP [duplicate]

Question

How to replace all characters of string to asterisks except first and last characters in PHP?

For example test should become t**t and profanity become p******y and so on

Answer 1

function get_starred($str) {
    $len = strlen($str);

    return substr($str, 0, 1).str_repeat('*', $len - 2).substr($str, $len - 1, 1);
}


$myStr = 'YourName';
echo get_starred($myStr); //should show Y******e