[RESOLVED] strlen question

[tito]

Is there a correct formula for using strlen? I am doing this

     if (strlen($pagetext) >= $vmaxchars)
       {

    $pagetext =
           substr($pagetext, 0, $vmaxchars) . '...<br /><br />'
            . construct_phrase($vbphrase['covermag_read_more'], $vbulletin->options['bburl'], $tid,
                    $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']);
   }

And the text from articles to articles could never match in length as per attached image.

[coldwerturkey]

because the text is in a small area.. long words would wrap to the new line so you have chunks of lines missing,

you're doing everything right,

[tito]

OK thanks, since I know the width of the column, I used wordwrap() and that worked.

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