PHP substring to shorten your output for preview

Many sites have a flow where the user is directed to a larger list of items that he can look over as a preview before navigating to a details page containing the full view. If you want to show a little preview of a long text attached to your listing, such as a user bio, using substring is a must. It is very simple to do, feed in your string you want to shorten into substr like so substr($string,0,250). The parameters are very simple ( string to slice up, starting index, number of letters to cut ... read more!

Feb 24, 2010 7:40pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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