Limit characters/words from database

[Mutley]

Is it possible when displaying a field from a database to limit it to the first 15 or so characters? For example, if I had this in my database:

"Hello world, what a great day!"

It would just display it as:

"Hello world..."

Thanks.

[paul2463]

write a simple function for display purposes such as
[code]
<?php
function displayText($text)
{
  $addon = "...";
  $text1 = substr($text, 0, 11);
  $returntext = "$text1$addon";
  return $returntext;
}
?>
[/code]
$text = "Hello World how are you today?";

$newtext = displayText($text);

echo $newtext ;

would display          Hello World...

hope that helps

[Thierry]

Note that this would also add the "..." to a value that already has less then say 15 characters.

Solution:

[code]
<?php
function displayText($text)
{
  $addon = "...";
  $text1 = substr($text, 0, 11);
  if($text <> $text1){
  $returntext = "$text1$addon";}else{$returntext = $text;}
  return $returntext;
}
?>
[/code]