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[inash]

Hello,

I would like to know how to have it so that just the first few sentences of an article in a database show up on one page, with a link that says 'more' that takes you to the full article.

Thanks in advance.

[jerdo]

This is most easily accomplished limiting the number of characters rather than sentences, since sentences can vary so widely. Try something like this:

$desc = substr($myrow[description], 0, 256);

For more information on substr check here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[bastien]

to take the string with the first 20 spaces...then you have whole words as opposed to the taking of the first 250 characters or whatever...

$desc=explode(" ",$mystring);
for ($1=0;$i<=20;$i++)[
$mydesc = mydesc." ".$desc[$i];
}

hth