I am tweaking a blog application I have programmed. I am trying to display a Google ad half through the blog entry, at the first available <br />. The code I use so far is: $half_way = strlen( nl2br(stripslashes($entry))) /2 ; $ad_position = strpos ( nl2br(stripslashes($entry)) , "<br />" , $half_way ); echo substr( nl2br(stripslashes($entry)) , 0, $ad_position); Is there a way to modify my strpos syntax to check and see if the nearest <br /> is before the half way mark? What is tending to happen is the ad is being placed 5/7ths of the way through the blog entry because of the length of the paragraph the half way character falls in. Visually it doesn't look balanced. I would prefer the ad display 4/7th of the way through the blog entry in those situations. Thanks for helping me. Ron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php