Pull only certain amount of text from memo field

[paulboreham]

Hi all 🙂

I am quite new to PHP / SQL after being totally into ASP / Access. Must say that I am enjoying PHP much more!

Just a quick question I have a large amount of text in a mysql memo field as a description for a product. I would like to display the first few lines of this on an initial page, then when the user clicks "More Details" they then go to a page where the full description will be.

Is this possible in PHP and if so, could you please give me a few pointers?

Cheers, Paul

[vaaaska]

Sure is...and there are a billion ways to do this...

One very easy way is to use substr...check out the lingo on it...it will return part of a string...

http://be.php.net/substr

good luck...v

[paulboreham]

Blimey, that easy eh?!

Tested and working ok, thanks very much matey 🙂

[vaaaska]

Welcome to PHP! 😉