Count characters and if....

[seiya]

What i would like to do is make php count the characters in a table field and if there are more than the maximum is set to just echo X characters and ... at the end. I would like to do this to avoid the problem i am having:
www.vgcity.com

See if a name is too long it messed the table up.

Any help? Thanks!

[Sxooter]

Easy, just do the following:

$x=24;
if (strlen($str)>$x) {
    print substr($str,0,$x)."...";
} else {
   print $str;
}

[seiya]

Thanks, that worked. 🙂