Capping a String

[Risingstar]

				<?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY postr DESC");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
  echo "<div class='post'>";
	echo "<div class='date'>";
		echo "<span class='month'>" . $row['date'] . "</span>";
		echo "<span class='day'>" . $row['date2'] . "</span>";
	echo "</div>";
	echo "<p>";
		echo "<span class='title'>" . $row['title'] . "</span>";
		echo $row['body'];
	echo "</p>";
	echo "<div style='text-align: right;'><i>Post Number:" . $row['postr'] . "</i></div>" ;
	echo "</div>";}
	?>
  <!-- END PHP POST -->
	  <?php 
	  mysql_close($con);
	  ?>

That's the code I have right now for a post, it works fine and all, but I'd like to make it so that if the post is over 60 characters, it cuts it off and puts "..."

I know it has something to do with strlen() and str_replace(), but I use my logic to figure out how to use those functions here.

Is there an easy way to do this, or will I have to learn a ton more PHP?

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

[NogDog]

Do a [man]strlen/man comparison in relation to 60, and if greater use [man]substr/man to grab the desired chunk. Append "..." after it and you're good to go.

[Risingstar]

Thanks for the link, I found substr_replace().

Could I just do:

echo substr_replace($string,"...",60);

?

Or is that not right?

[laserlight]

Yes, I prefer substr_replace() for this. In practice either way will do.