[snip] Hi, everyone, I apologise if this posts twice; I'm having issues with my outgoing email server. I'm making 'teasers' of the first, say 200 to 250 characters of some articles. This works great: $content = strip_tags($article['content']); $striptease = substr($content, 0, 275); but cuts off words right in the midd ... [/snip] http://www.php.net/explode you can use to get individual words..... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php