RE: [PHP] Looking for a string function

[snip] I seem to remember a built in php function that will take a huge block of text. Then just spit out X number of characters from it and follow it with an additional string value. But I cannot remember what it is. I seem to remember it being something other than the substr(). I am looking to pull the first say 200 characters from an article and follow the last character/word with something like ... Does anyone know what I am talking about, or am I just smoking something and my memory is going? [/snip] Usually folks roll their own as there is no set function for this. $myShortString = substr($string, 0, 200)."..."; will work, but you're going to cutoff in the middle of some word at the end of the substring usually.