Is there a way in MySQL to select a fields first X bytes?

I have a field of type text.  I would like to print the first 500 or so
bytes of its contents as a summary of the entire field, then having the user
click "read more..." or something of that sort for the whole document.

I read up on select in the MySQL manual and didn't see much, does anyone out
there know of such a feature?  Should I just take the whole field into php
and do it that way?

thanks,
Micah Bushouse



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