[SOLVED] Output Text Area Limit

[phpbeginner]

I have read this somewhere but can't find it and I know it's simple for most of you but how do I output a specific number of characters from blob.

 

I have a frontpage block which will be linking to the full blob, but I only want to have maybe 90 or so characters from the blob in my frontpage block.

[trq]

substr().

[marcus]

You can use substr

 

<?php
//say you have a sql query already and $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)

$body = substr($row[body],0,90); //the 1st character to the 90th character
echo $body;

//to find character length of the blob use:
echo strlen($row[body]);
?>

[phpbeginner]

Yep, too easy. Thanks a bunch !