Re: Get just first 200 characters of field?
| From: | Roberto Cespa | Date: | Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:47:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Get just first 200 characters of field? | ||
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Quite simple:
echo substr($row["field_to_cut"],0,200);
This line echoes the first 200 chars of a string.
It works fine for me.
Hope this helps,
Roberto Cespa
James Montz wrote:
> Im working on my own news managment system for my web site, and I would like
> to be able to post on the main page the article header, and just the first
> 200 or so characters of the actual content of the article.
>
> How can this be done? Using PHP3 and MySQL? Is there a specific PHP or
> MySQL function that would accomplish this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ____________________
> James C. Montz
> Systems Engineer
> Northwest Internet Services
>
> "A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved
> from a simpler system that worked just fine. "
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