How do i set maximum characters?

[futureal]

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:

PHP Code:

if (strlen($mystring) > 20)
  $mystring = substr($mystring, 0, 17) . "..."; 


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

Does that make any sense? heh