Thanks Joseph and Philip. I think that will work very well. >> why not use substr? >> $preview = substr($string, 0, 50) .'...'; >> >> it will probably cut off in the middle of a word, but you can use strpos >> and >> check to see if the char is a space to get to the point you want. >> >> It's possible that the keywords wouldn't be in the first X numbers of >> characters. > Then use strstr() to find the first occurence of the first keyword and > then use substr with an initial offset... David -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
