On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:18 am, Dwayne Heronimo wrote:
> function previewString($showcatvar) {
>
>  $minitxt = $showcatvar;
>  $len = strlen($minitxt);
>
>  if ($len > 235)
>  {
>   $len = 235;
>  }
>  else
>  {
>   $len = $len;
>  }

Take out this whole "else" block -- Assigning a variable to itself is
just silly.

>  $newstring = substr($minitxt,0,$len);
>
>  $previewtext = $newstring;
>
>  $previewtext = $whowcatvar;

You need to RETURN some value here, for the function to give back the
"answer" so that your echo below has something to print out.

http://php.net/return


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