Truncate text - Variable and PHP Help

[fishfood]

I am just learning PHP and I am struggling to get this to work...

 

<?php


function myTruncate($string, $limit, $break=" ", $pad="...") { 
if(strlen($string) <= $limit) return $string; $string = substr($string, 0, $limit); if(false !== ($breakpoint = strrpos($string, $break))) { $string = substr($string, 0, $breakpoint); } return $string . $pad; }

$description = "This is where the text string lies."; 


$shortdesc = myTruncate($description, 100); 
echo "<p>$shortdesc</p>";

  ?>

 

In here:

 

 $description = "This is where the text string lies."; 

 

How could I put this:

 

<?php echo nl2br($row_myData['content']); ?>

 

so that the recordset content will show up as the description variable?

 

Thanks!

[RussellReal]

not exactly sure what you mean..

 

but tryna guess here..

 

$description = nl2br($row_myData['content']); // lol

[fishfood]

I've solved it. Incase anyone wants to know, it's:

 

<?php echo  myTruncate(nl2br($row_myData['content']), 100); ?>

[redarrow]

what are you on about please...

 

Was you asking in a strange way, how to have a brake every 100 character, or word?