php 截取中文字符串方法

  /**
     * 截取中文字符串函数
     * @param $str    需要截取的字串
     * @param $start    开始截取的位置
     * @param $length    截取的长度
     * @return  此函数返回的是一个数组，因此要配合join函数来显示字符串:join('',subString_UTF8($str, $start, $lenth));
     */
    public function subString_UTF8($str, $start, $lenth){
        $len = strlen($str);
        $r = array();
        $n = 0;
        $m = 0;
        for($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {
            $x = substr($str, $i, 1);
            $a  = base_convert(ord($x), 10, 2);
            $a = substr('00000000'.$a, -8);
            if ($n < $start){
                if (substr($a, 0, 1) == 0) {
                }elseif (substr($a, 0, 3) == 110) {
                    $i += 1;
                }elseif (substr($a, 0, 4) == 1110) {
                    $i += 2;
                }
                $n++;
            }else{
                if (substr($a, 0, 1) == 0) {
                    $r[ ] = substr($str, $i, 1);
                }elseif (substr($a, 0, 3) == 110) {
                    $r[ ] = substr($str, $i, 2);
                    $i += 1;
                }elseif (substr($a, 0, 4) == 1110) {
                    $r[ ] = substr($str, $i, 3);
                    $i += 2;
                }else{
                    $r[ ] = '';
                }
                if (++$m >= $lenth){
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return $r;
    } // End subString_UTF8;