shortening strings

[pablodelapena]

On my site i display a list of users, well, if a users name is very long it can cause tables to look funny. How do i shorten it? is there a function yto do this?

i.e how do i shorten say: pablo_de_la_pena
to: pablo_de_la...

😕

[John_Canyon]

if(strlen($username) > 10)
{
$username = substr($username,0,10) . "...";
}

echo $username;

Something like this will work.

Cheers

[pablodelapena]

perfect!