Re: PHP Snippet on a web page - SOLVED

Pam Hi, that didn't work 1st time although it certainly got me moving in the right direction.....it repeated each word (1 to 10) with the hypertext link "read more>>>" attached to each word which was very messy indeed. I did a bit of juggling around and managed to get it perfect. Many thanks for your help, greatly appreciated. Regards Jeremy FYI: <?php function cut_string($string,$wordnum) {

       $string_arr=explode(" ",$string);
       for($i=0;$i<$wordnum;$i++)

       {
           $re_string=" ".$string_arr[$i];
             $str=$re_string;
             print $str;
       }
      

} //connect, select db, create query, run query, close connection $conn=mysql_connect("localhost", "userid", "password") or die(mysql_error()); $database=mysql_select_db("fback", $conn)or die(mysql_error());

$sql="SELECT * FROM customer_feedback ORDER by id DESC LIMIT 25";          $result=mysql_query($sql);

//PHP goes into while loop to return summaries of comments while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo"<TR><td><B>Date: " .strftime('%d/%m/%y',strtotime($row["date"]))."</B></td> <td><B>Comment By:</B> ".Stripslashes($row["name"])."<td></tr>"; echo"<TR><TD COLSPAN=\"2\" valign\"top\"><B>Comment: </B>"; stripslashes(nl2br(cut_string($row["comment"],"10"))); echo"<a href=\"full_summ.php?id=$row[id]\">More>>> </a>"; echo"<hr></td></tr>"; } //close database mysql_close($conn); ?>

Oops - spotted it - try this function cut_string($string,$wordnum,$trail) {

       $string_arr=explode(" ",$string);
       for($i=0;$i<$wordnum;$i++)

       {
           $re_string=" ".$string_arr[$i];
           $str=$re_string.$trail;
           print $str;
       }
    }

Pam

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