Hi Justin, $string = substr($string, 0, 5000) . ".... text too long.";
? http://www.php.net/substr James "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > > Really simple, but can't see which funtion to use in the manual. > > I want to take a user-inputted string $text, and IF it's length is more > than $limit, trim it to the limited length, and then tack on some kind > of "... text cut (too long)" thing on the end. > > I'm only missing one bit (line4): > > 1 $limit = "5000"; > 2 if(strlen($text) > $limit) > 3 { > 4 <cut $text down to $limit length> > 5 $text .= "...sorry, text was too long"; > 6 } > > > Or is it hard than that? > > > Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
