Try this: if(strlen($row->text)>50) { echo substr($row->text,0,47) . "..."; } else { echo $row->text; }
- Audun -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Limit output of query field Hi there, Hope you can help me with the following: I have a query and i'm showing the output: echo $row->text; That goes o.k. but the text is 400 characters long and I only one to show the first 50 characters and at the end showing ... dot's.. Help! Thank you very much! Frank -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php