Character cut off

[Mythotical]

I can't seem to get the character cut off to work with the parser. What I want is to count bbcode include before it cuts off it counted after bbcode is parsed.

PHP Code:

            if (strlen($recent['message']) > '8')
            {
                $trimmedlength = strrpos(substr($recent['message'], 0, '8'), '...');
                $message1 = substr($recent['message'], 0, $trimmedlength);
                $parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list()); 
                $message = $parser->do_parse($message1, false, true, true, false, true, false);
            } else {
                $parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list()); 
                $message = $parser->do_parse($recent['message'], false, true, true, false, true, false);
            } 


That is what I have thus far, I have been playing with it trying to make it work but it just won't work. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks
Steve

[Mythotical]

Still need help with this.