printing limmited numbes of characters

[inusrat]

I have a field type product_description of type longtext in my database (MYSQL) which suppose has pararagrapg which is 300 characters long.

NoW using the select statment I retrive the value of product_description. Now when I write that value I want to write down only first 100 charaters. How can I do that . You must have seen something like that

This is a NEC cell phone, it uses 2 high voltage batteries. It comes with phone case and .... more

and when you click on more you get to new page with the full text.


Thanks

http://www.786Marriage.com

http://www.amasspharma.com

http://www.ambdex.com

 

[ericbrunson]

look for 'substr()' in the php manual.