Re: text problem.

On Monday 29 April 2002 17:44, r wrote: > Greetings all, > Special greetings to all my new PHP list pals, you know who you are. > > Sorry to be so mysterious in the subject line but i dont know how to > explain this in one line. > > ever visit a site and you get this text (Or something like this...heheh) > > "This morning shockingly Bill Gates claims he is broke! > The kooky billionaire is.......(link)subscribe / login to read this fully." > Basically, its querying the database and instead of displaying the whole > results it just taking the first 2 lines or X number of characters and then > adding the link stuff.....any idea how to do this? You yourself have already outlined how to do it: get text from db get the first 100 chars from the text drop the last 'word' (it may be incomplete), using explode(), array_pop() You may have to refine the process to suit your needs. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The discerning person is always at a disadvantage. */