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[austinderrick2]

I need a script to limit the size of a text I get from my DB to a certain length and if it is too long it will put ... and not display the rest....

Lets call my variable to be changed $variable

I want the script to be like

$variable = "messagethatiswaytoolong";
changing script here
echo "$variable";

And the page to look like:

messagethatisw...

[diego25]

Take a look at the substr function.

Diego

[batman]

Hello,

Yes the substr is the way to go. Use this code it should work.

$variable = "messagethatiswaytoolong";

If you only wanted to display the first 7 parts of the string do this:
For any other amount you want to pass change the 7.

$variable2 = substr($variable, 0, 7);

echo "$variable2...";

-Blake