getting certain number of characters

[buknoii]

hi there! anyone in here got an idea on how to produce an output coming from the database wherein the output is limited to only 60 characters?

 

for example i have a field named news_content and i want to display on 60 characters.. anyone in here got an idea?

[r-it]

use substring:

 

substr($var, 0, 60);

[buknoii]

how do i insert a substring on this kind of code?

 

echo $row["content_data"];

[r-it]

it would be better to store the data in a variable first:

 

$var = $row["content_data"];

 

$var = substr($var, 0, 60);

 

echo $var;

 

or

 

echo substr($row["content_data"], 0, 60);