RE: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article
| From: | Jason Murray | Date: | Wed, 04 Oct 2000 05:59:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> Any ideas?
Yup, see below.
> <?
> // connect to database here
> $mySQL = "SELECT * FROM news order by date limit 4";
> $results = mysql_query($mySQL);
> while ($myrow=mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
// My added stuff
$retstring = "";
> $stuff = "$myrow[message]";
>
> if (strlen($stuff)<125) {
> $retstring = $retstring . $stuff;
> }
>
> else {
> $retstring = $retstring . substr($stuff,0,125) . '...';
> }
> print "$retstring";
> }
> ?>