[SOLVED] Showing only the first 5 lines of an entry

[SuperTini]

Hello,

 

I am working on a site where useres are supposed to publish stories. On the index.php only the first five lines (or so) of the newest article should show.

 

How do I create something like that with php and mySQL?

 

Thanks for help.

[trq]

There is an article on the subject on our main site here.

[DarkWater]

There is an article on the subject on our main site here.

 

I'm fairly sure that the pagination tutorial doesn't cover this.

@Thread starter: Check out the substr() function.  You can cut the string at x amount of characters and just display those with a More... link.

[trq]

There is an article on the subject on our main site here.

 

I'm fairly sure that the pagination tutorial doesn't cover this.

@Thread starter: Check out the substr() function.  You can cut the string at x amount of characters and just display those with a More... link.

 

Hehe, I only skimmed the question obviously. I thought the op said 'five articles', not 'five lines'.

[SuperTini]

Super! I will try that now. 

 

Thanks for fast replies. Will post the result later on:)

 

Have a nice day,

 

Christina

[SuperTini]

Thank you DarkWater. It works!