On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have a mysql database of articles, and what i'd like to do is make 1
> page that shows a brief sneak peak of each article, so what I would do
> is, show the first 50 or so words of each article and then add an
> elipses at the end. I'm sure it can be done but I wouldn't have a clue
> where to start. Any suggestions, or anyone ever done this?
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
Mysql has a substring function you could use to grab the first n
characters, then just concatenate the elippses when you display the
string.
With a little more effort, you could play around with substring_index to
display the first n words of the article.
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