ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 if I have a text:[code]News: We are constantly trying to improve phpfreaks and these forums, so feel free to go to the PHPFreaks Comments/Suggestions board and point out anything you'd like to see different! (copyright PHPFREAKS)[/code]and I only want to echo 10 number characters at the most and the rest are left as "...", (looks like this):[code]News: We a...[/code]Thanks for any help providedTed. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 use substr(): http://php.net/substrthen just ."..."; Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 thanks :D I got it working!Ted. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Anytime you want to do stuff with a string, check the documentation on strings and look through the functions ;) Same for arrays, etc. No one is expected to memorize all those functions, that's why they're documented :) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 okay. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamasheto Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Or even better, download this >> http://www.php.net/get/php_manual_en.tar.gz/from/a/mirror Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 haha, thanks ;D Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31722-solved-limit-echo-character-numbers/#findComment-147066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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