[RESOLVED] PHP: limiting amount of text printed

[jme]

Hiya guys,

I am in the process of re-writing one of my sites in PHP using MySQL for the dynamic content. I have a table within my database that I store 'news' items that I show on a specific page within the site but I would like to show maybe the first 200 characters of the article on the front page, but I cannot work out hoiw to limit the output to limit the display on the front page to 200 characters.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jamie

[jonno946]

as found in the manual here:

echo substr($string, 0, 200);

[jme]

Thanks. That worked perfectly. 😃