<snip>
$string = substr($stringname,0,50); 

echo $string;

http://www.php.net/substr 

</snip>

That will just give the first 50 characters of the string.

You could just try one of the many suggestions on
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php 

Scroll down to the user comments and there is a bunch of examples.

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