News Page Help

[aaadee]

Hi, i have got a news page which displays all the News in the database.

But i only want to limit the stories on this page to 90 characteristics. There is then a link on the story which views all of the story on the page.

Any help.

Cheers

Adam

[Anon]

try

echo substr($news,0,90);

starts at news[0] goes on 90 chars

Al

[aaadee]

Hi, i have tried that but it displays

substr(the actual news statement from my database.,0 , 90);

Any ideas?

ive searched on the web for substr but cant seem to get it to work!

cheers

adam

[slug58]

when you are doing the echo don't do this:

echo "substr($news,0,90)";

do this:

echo substr($news,0,90);

it makes a difference!!