php question

[amateurcanada]

i have field $description.. its about 255 characters long
HOWEVER for the sake of my members area i only want the first 100 characters displayed, is there a chopping operator to do this in php?

for example, echo chop($s,100);

thanks for your help guys.

[Lycanthrope]

http://us2.php.net/substr

[amateurcanada]

Nice! I couldnt search enough times to find it :D thanks dood - see ya

[Pete-KT]

Nice one

[Kimo]

glad you got this resolved