[Resolved] Displaying a limited number of characters

[furious5]

I have a search page, and I want to return the results with a description which is limited to 255 characters.

After this the rest of the text is not displayed.

Does anyone know the best way to go about this???

[dankstick]

Try...

$word = substr($word,0,255);

[n00854180t]

I think this will do it:

$var = $yourvar;
$newvar = substr($var, 0, 255);

[n00854180t]

Damn dankstick you beat me by a few seconds!

[furious5]

Excellent thanks for such a swift response guys.