You can use the 'substr' function
$reduced_string = substr($str, 0, 60);
More info available at http://www.php.net/substr
Amit Arora http://www.digitalamit.com
Cole Ashcraft wrote:
How would you reduce a string to a specified length? Say reduce 600 to 60 or abc to ab? Is there a PHP function for this? Will I have to write my own code?
Cole
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