How do i set maximum characters?
 

IS that very hard to do?
I was trying to incorporate that in the follwing script:


I know it has something to do with:


But haven't got a clue how to combine that....
Can you help me out?

little more detail would be good. Max characters for what, subject?

Sorry i forgot to mention that, yes the subject, in this case: $row["title"] But i haven't got a clue how yet. So if you could help that would be great

I have got my pencil and paper ready, how do i do this?

My fingers are getting cramped holding the pencil :)
Nobody knows how?

Are you saying that you want a string to be no longer than a certain length?

I use a small addition like this in my forums to shrink usernames to show no more than 20 characters in the thread lists. Taking that as an example, you could do this:

In this case, the string "abcdefghijklmnopqrs" would pass through untouched, but the string "abcdefghijklmnopqrst" would become "abcdefghijklmnop..."

Does that make any sense? heh

Yes thats exactly what i wanted. Thanks!
So my string is this: $row["title"]

So the code for me would be like this?:

if (strlen($row["title"]) > 20)
$row["title"] = substr($row["title"], 0, 17) . "...";

I am doing something wrong i guess, because the above example doesn't work... Argh!

Let me give you the complete code:

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$result = mysql_query("SELECT title, threadid, dateline FROM thread WHERE forumid NOT IN ('10','16')ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 40");

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

{
echo ".$row["title"]."\r\n";


}
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I hope this helps