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string handling - Cutting Strings down to a number of Letters was created/last modified on Thu 05 Jan 2006 7:45 AM

<?php
 function cut_text($html_code,$total_letters){
     $html_code = str_split($html_code,$total_letters);
     $html_code = $html_code[0]."...";
     return $html_code;    
 }
 ?>
 
 Call this with:
 
 <?php
 cut_text('this is my wonderful text', 60);
 ?>

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