Displaying just the first 20 words?

[Fritz]

how would I display just the first xx words of the contents of a mysql field via a php call?

This could be very useful, and I just can seem to get it.

[leatherback]

Hi,

you could cut a string of at a certain position (Check command: substr in PhPbuilder manuals). But this would not give you words.

For words maybe you could do a query, and explode (=command) the reslt by space, and display onle the first 20 values in the array?

J.