$text = substrt($text, 0, 75) . '...'; Cuts anything beyond 75 caracthers and add "..." to the end of it.
Also, you could when people submit anything check for spaces if the size is greater than a number of characters: if (strlen($text) > '75' && !ereg(' ', $text)) { echo 'Please use spaces!'; } -- Julio Nobrega. Um dia eu chego lá: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toca Ajudei? Salvei? Que tal um presentinho? http://www.submarino.com.br/wishlistclient.asp?wlid=664176742884 "Mantas Kriauciunas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hey PHP General List, > > I have news thing in MySQL database... i made tables that is good > to look under 800x600 and highet.. now i am outputing from database > $full_news line like this: > > echo "Full Story:<br>$myrow[3]<br><br>\n"; > > so the problem is... like some stupid people put word...without > spaces or something without them...just letters.... no spaces...and > it doesn't warp the text. What do you think i should do at that > point? What do you do in your sites to protect that? because my > tables get wight bigger..they are set to wight=100% ..... thanks for > any help or any suggestion what should i do. > > > :------------------------------: > Have A Nice Day! > Mantas Kriauciunas A.k.A mNTKz > > Contacts: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Http://mntkz-hata.visiems.lt > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php