Limit Individual Echoes

[justlukeyou]

Hi,

 

I am trying to limit a single echo so that only 200 characters can only be echoed.

 

<div class="discussionarticlesintroborder"><?php echo $row['intro']; ?></div>

 

This creates an error.

 

<div class="discussionarticlesintroborder"><?php echo $row['intro']; LIMIT 200 ?></div>

[.josh]

echo just echoes whatever value you give it, it has no method or argument for limiting the length of the value.  You can wrap your value in a substr call to limit it.

 

 

[silkfire]

That's what you use the great abundance of string functions you find in PHP for.

 

In this case you are to extract a substring of 200 characters from your string:

 

echo substr($row['intro'], 0, 200)

[justlukeyou]

Cheers dude.