spikypunker Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Ok, i've got a lot of advice and help from this board, so this latest obstacle i tried to do myself completely but have failed many many times!! All i want to do is take a string from my mysql, then display only the first say, 64 characters (including spaces) on the page. I've tried many ways and it's bever worked. I thought i could simply, take the $string then do a kinda, string chunk_split ( string $body [, int $chunklen [, string $end ]] ) I've tried many differnet variations and played around with what i could find online, but dont think my understanding is good enough. Can anyone help me out? You dont have to solve it for me, maybe some help on how to solve it myself? Kind Regards, Chris Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178034-solved-limiting-character-strings/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynew Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 $string = "This is a very long sentence. But I only want a basic preview of it."; if(strlen($string) > 60){ $string = substr($string,0,60).' [...]'; } echo $string; Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178034-solved-limiting-character-strings/#findComment-938715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikypunker Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 Yay! Cheers man, i'll try it QUICK SHARP and let ya know, Peaaace Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178034-solved-limiting-character-strings/#findComment-938719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynew Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Just note that if you my original sentence, no cutting will be done as it's under 60 characters in length. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178034-solved-limiting-character-strings/#findComment-938723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikypunker Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 Works perfectly thanks guy! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/178034-solved-limiting-character-strings/#findComment-940683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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