Re: [PHP] Newbie Question.. (MySQL/PHP)

2001-09-07 Thread David Robley
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I have a mysql database of articles, and what i'd like to do is make 1 page that shows a brief sneak peak of each article, so what I would do is, show the first 50 or so words of each article and then add an elipses at the end.

RE: [PHP] Newbie Question.. (MySQL/PHP)

2001-09-07 Thread Jack Dempsey
sure, am actually doing this right now ;-) It depends on how fancy you want to get...if you don't mind slicing off in the middle of a word, you can just do this: $preview_text = substr($text,0,200) . '. . .'; //gets the first 200 characters and adds an ellipsis afterwards if you want to make