Cropping/Shortening Strings

[Ben Smith]

Hi guys,

I was going about my daily business, updating my blog to make it better when I hit a problem.
How do you limit the length of a string from a database??

Thanks
Benji

[b.rich]

function limit_text( $text, $limit )
{
if( strlen($text)>$limit )
{
$text = substr( $text,0,$limit );
$text = substr( $text,0,-(strlen(strrchr($text,' '))) );
}
return $text;
}


Hi guys,

I was going about my daily business, updating my blog to make it better when I hit a problem.
How do you limit the length of a string from a database??

Thanks
Benji