explode() help

[kelkafa]

Hi guys,
I have a history site and I post history articles. Eventually, my articles are too long. I use a simple form that enters the values "title" and "text" into my database. What I want to do is to break up my long text into parts and view it page by page, by using "next page" and "previous page" buttons at the bottom. I heard about the explode function but couldn't use it for my purpose. If any of you come up with a little code please reply to this post...
thanx in advance

[intenz]

You should use substr(); for this
Look for the function reference for substr(); at http://www.php.net

[kelkafa]

hmm that was quick
all right substr seems to be what I need..
however the syntax is like

rest = substr("abcdef", 1, 3); // returns "bcd"

as I told you I have very long texts and I should work on "word" basis rather than "character" basis.

I think I'm gonna use sth like,

rest= substy("$mytext", x, y);

What do you think?