RE: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article

How about: $stuff = "my long string here"; if (strlen($stuff)<100) { $retstring = $retstring . $stuff; } else { $retstring = $retstring . substr($stuff,0,100) . "..."; } cheers, Lawrence. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Weinberger [mailto:ben@digitalsmiths.com] Sent: October 3, 2000 03:27 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article Hi~ I'm pulling data out of a MySQL db and displaying it on a web page... the data is like a news article with a title and a body. Currently, I can display the title and I have it linked to a javascript pop-up window that displays the full article. I would like to add the first 100 characters of the article under the title as well... something like follows: Version 6.0 just Released We've worked hard to bring you a new and improved version 6.0 software package so that you.... Is there a way to make those words under the title appear and only display the first 100 characters followed by a "..."? Thanks, -Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net