PHP隐藏字符

1、隐藏手机号中间四位数字

$tel = '15779956939';
$new = substr($tel,0,3).'****'.substr($tel,7);
echo $new; //157****6939

2、只保留第一个和最后一个字符，中间均为星号

$str = 'nihao';
$xing = str_repeat('*',strlen(trim($str))-2);
$str_new = substr(trim($str),0,1).$xing.substr(trim($str),-1);
echo $str_new; //n***o