Limiting the ammount of text displayed

[mathewjenkinson]

Hi All,

Im writing a page that displays snipets of news articles.

I can get the page to connect to the MYSQL DB and get the title and thumbnail however I want to limit the amount of the actual news bit to 50 characters with a link to the rest of the article.

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Thanks

Mathew.

[discomatt]

echo ( strlen($str)<55 ? $str : substr($str, 0, 50).'...' );