opposite of str_pad string pad ( String Reduce? )

[woocha]

I know about str_pad but is there an opposite to it. With str_pad you can add characters to a string, but what if I want to take characters away. Like I want to only display the first 25 characters and then three dots(...)if the string is longer. Is there a function for that?

[NogDog]

if(strlen($string) > 25)
{
   echo substr($string, 0, 25) . "...";
}
else
{
   echo $string;
}

[woocha]

Perfect...Thank you
🙂