Jord,
I would accomplish this through SQL. You could use SELECT LEFT(mycolumn,x)
FROM mytable WHERE ...
and then display that along with a link to a page where you select the whole
string on that particular article ID. In fact, I do this exact thing on my
site.
Or you could read the whole string into an array, and use the PHP function
to retrieve the substring you want. I prefer the first option however.
Good luck,
Johan Alfredeen
PongWorld.com
www.pongworld.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jordan Elver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:20 PM
To: PHP General Mailing List
Subject: [PHP] Splitting Text
Hi,
Can anyone give some pointers for my problem.
I want to pull articles out of a db and then show the first x number of
words
with a read more link to the rest of the article.
Could someone point me in the right direction. I've seen a code snippet for
this, but now I can't find it :-(
TIA,
Jord
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http://www.jordanelver.co.uk
Oops, my brain just hit a bad sector!
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