Dear All, I am very new to programming. I want to make a preview text that would display only a part of the text that is a text field in a database.
//Begin Make preview string $minitxt = $row_show_cat['text']; $len = strlen($minitxt); if ($len > 235) { $len = 235; } else { $len = $len; } $newstring = substr($minitxt,0,$len); $previewtext = $newstring; //End Make preview string But if I want to display this somewhere in the page it will only display the first record of at every text column row <?php echo $previewstext ?> Althought I am very new to php and programming. I thought maybe I should rewrite it into a function. But my function won't work. function previewString($showcatvar) { $minitxt = $showcatvar; $len = strlen($minitxt); if ($len > 235) { $len = 235; } else { $len = $len; } $newstring = substr($minitxt,0,$len); $previewtext = $newstring; $previewtext = $whowcatvar; } and to display it in the page: <?php echo previewString($row_show_cat['text']) ?> IT displays notthing. But I think I am doing somthing wrong. I am assigning the wrong variables to the $row_show_cat['text']) ??? Please let me know -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php