RE: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article
| From: | Ben Weinberger | Date: | Wed, 04 Oct 2000 05:08:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Displaying first 100 characters of an article | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Worked great... thank you.
At 03:59 PM 10/4/2000 +1000, Jason Murray wrote:
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"; } ?> -- 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