Re: truncating dilema

NW> It has just occured to me though that if I'm to list maybe 100 news NW> items with descriptions it means alot of memory right because i have 100 NW> items containing: NW> date NW> title NW> text (could be any length) NW> I will use substr() in my php to format the descriptions but I thought NW> I'd ask here if anyone had a *better* suggestion? You could use the substring() function in MySQL (or a similar function in your db of choice) to make the db do the work instead of PHP. - Julie --> Julie Meloni --> julie@thickbook.com --> www.thickbook.com Find "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323494/thickbookcom-20