Limiting characters of displayed results

[slvr99]

Hello, I'm having trouble applying the substr function to the following code below. I'm trying to limit to amount of characters displayed from the 'headline' to 60, It should be simple enough but i keep getting syntax errors.

<?php print "<div class='resultHeading'> <a href= 'javascript: void(0)'> ".$row['headline']." </a>  ";?>

This is a simple example of of how the substr is used:

<?php print substr($smallDesc, 0,129); print"..."?>

Thanks

[NogDog]

Is this what you're looking for?

<?php print "<div class='resultHeading'> <a href= 'javascript: void(0)'> ".substr($row['headline'], 0, 60)." </a>  ";?>

[slvr99]

thank you so much for the fast response, it works like a charm. The periods threw me off

[slvr99]

aup