PHP displaying mysql results

[DarrenPWS]

Hi all,

Me again.

I am creating many things, one of which is a webmail system.

What I am trying to achieve is in the inbox, if a message's subject is long, I would like to be able to display it as a shortened version with dots so's that it doesn't shift the table layout.

Eg.

Instead of it diplaying:

RE - Can you send me information on html?

It would display:

RE - Can you sen...

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Does this make sense?

I appreciate your help.

dD.

[speed]

$subject = "RE - Can you send me information on html?";

if(strlen($subject) > 19) $subject = substr($subject, 0, 16) . '...';

echo "$subject\n";

Change the numbers to cut the string to the length you want.