explode / implode function call on a field with blob type

I have the following table structure called announcements - id int(6) - data longblob And this is what i did: $sql_stmt = "SELECT id, data FROM announcements"; $query = mysql_query ($sql_stmt); while ($row = mysql_fetch_object ($query)) { echo $row->id; $tmp = explode (" ", $row->data, 10); #1 $data_stripped = implode (" ", $tmp); #2 echo $row->data; } #1 the reason why I had used explode with " " (space character) as the delimeter with the limit set to 10 is because I want to extract only the first 10 words out of the "data". #2 and string those 10 words into a string and display them out instead of getting the intended results (the first 10 words), i get "1111111" is this because my "data" field type is longblob or blog? regards