Hi Stephen, > I've seen this on a lot of news sites and such. How > can I display only so many characters, then put a "..." > to show that it's continued?
<?php $story = "a really really really really long string"; $limit = 10; // how many chars to display echo substr($story, 0, $limit). "..."; ?> Read all about it at http://php.net/substr Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php