RE: [PHP] truncating dilema

2002-06-13 Thread David Freeman
> It has just occured to me though that if I'm to list maybe > 100 news items with descriptions it means alot of memory > right because i have 100 items containing: > date > title > text (could be any length) > > I will use su

Re: [PHP] truncating dilema

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Julie Meloni declared > You could use the substring() function in MySQL (or a similar function > in your db of choice) to make the db do the work instead of PHP. Nice, I'll look it up. Cheers Julie. - -- Nick Wilson // www.explo

RE: [PHP] truncating dilema

2002-06-13 Thread Lazor, Ed
/htmlref95.html > -Original Message- > From: Nick Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:21 PM > To: php-general > Subject: [PHP] truncating dilema > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > > I

Re: [PHP] truncating dilema

2002-06-13 Thread Julie Meloni
NW> It has just occured to me though that if I'm to list maybe 100 news NW> items with descriptions it means alot of memory right because i have 100 NW> items containing: NW> date NW> title NW> text (could be any length) NW> I will use

[PHP] truncating dilema

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I'm making an idiot proof news database for a client and do not want to include a 'description' field. I had thought to return a truncated version of the actual stories as a description. It has just occured to me though that if I'm to