I have searched far and wide but can not find the answer xD

ok, so, how do i truncate (trim) characters off a string so it could have been x characters before but is 10 now?

Regards,
Nick.

ah got it from paul m at vborg

$text = substr($text, 0, 10) for future readers.

0 means it starts at 0 and 10 means it wil stop at 10.

and if you want to add 3 dots on the end then do this:
then you can just define length as 17 and then it will be 20 chracters long the 17 actualy chracters + the 3 dots.

That can be done in one line of code.

right not quite sure that does the exact same though.

It does, and it's more efficient.

I'm sure it is more efficient as it less bytes of info. doesn't mean i like it though :p