Displaying few words from record in mySQL

Glory & Supreme Power What i'm looking to do is.. i want to display only the first few words of the record in my mySQL database.. For example.. i have a table with a field "title".. and let's say my last record has the value in title field as "This is going to be really cool" What i want to display is "this is going..." Basically this is for News Headlines. I have a page which displays news but on the first page of the site i have to give the first few words of the last 4 articles in the news table.. How can i do this? I have seen this in a lot of places but i dont know how to do this. Thanks, Rahul S. Johari __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/