shortening variables

[dukegamma]

is there a way to take a variable thats a string and shorten it to like 15 characters and place an elipse at the end?

[pjleonhardt]

yes

there are other ways of doing this, but one way could be done the following:

$var =  "foobarmanshoo I have a lot of free time";
$var = str_split($var, 15);

echo $var . "...";

will return...

foobarmanshoo I...