[Kevitt]

Originally posted by OrangeCow.net
Ok, I am working on making a news script for a new site... I have currently come up with these problems:

I want to show a snippet of the news post on the main page, but how can i restrict the number of characters that are displayed?

For example - "Yadda Yadda has died today after an assasination in his home..."

I only want it to display a certain number of characters or words, or whatever I can restrict! Can anyone help me with that?

For this use the SUBSTR() function like so...

PHP Code:

echo substr($MY_SNIPPET,0,100); 


this would show the first 100 characters in that snippet.