display so many characters then put ...

[jesushax]

hi i was wonderin ghow to do the above

 

i want to only disaply  acertain number of characters of a record then when it reaches a certain point put "..."

 

anyoe know?

 

cheers

[Perad]

Use substr(). Then add ... on the end

 

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[jesushax]

tanks

[Aureole]

The only problem with using substr() is words may get cut off half way through, if you don't want that to happen you could do something like this:

 

<?php
$puzzle;
$counter = 1;
$words = 15;

$full_article = 'I am an article, blah blah blah. You find the topic that I am based on extremely interesting and you want to read more of me.';

$pieces = explode( ' ', $full_article );

foreach( $pieces as $piece )
{
$counter++;
$puzzle .= $piece . ' ';

if( $counter > $words ) break;
}

$puzzle = rtrim( $puzzle ) . '...';

echo( $puzzle );
?>

 

There are probably better ways of doing it, but it works...