displaying just enough

[chrisleon]

I have some fields in a database that are extremely long. If I display these fields in the browser, I get scroll bars for days. What I would like to do, is just display the first 20 characters of the field, followed by some ......, Is this possible?

[seby]

if (strlen($string) >= 2)
{
     echo substr(trim($string), 0, 2) . '...';
} 

just replace 2 with the number of characters you want to truncate after.

-- cheers.

[chrisleon]

gracias