from either side of a string
//trimming white space from a string
//our two strings
$string1 = " spaces before";
$string2 = " spaces before and after ";
//remove the whitespace
$trimmed_string1 = trim($string1);
$trimmed_string2 = trim($string2);
//display the text
echo $trimmed_string1;
echo "
";
echo $trimmed_string2;
?>