[SOLVED] Long Words Hurt My Site

[NorthWestSimulations]

How to I make a function to only allow a word to be 32 letters long? the reason I am doing this is because the ?page= will display the value on the screen as

$page = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_GET['page']));

so when they use alot of letters it throws the HTML off balance. Is there a way of making it so that if a word is like 45 charactors long only the first 32 will appear?

[radar]

if (strlen($summary) > $limit)

      $summary = substr($summary, 0, strrpos(substr($summary, 0, $limit), ' ')) . '...';

      echo $summary;

 

[NorthWestSimulations]

Ahh this works:

 

$page = substr(mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_GET['page'])), 0, 32);