limit charcters in display text

[Che]

Hey all,

Can anyone help me figure out a way to limit the number of characters to display in anchor text? For example, if I had:

<a href='somepage.html'>this is the text I want to be limited</a> 

and I wanted it to display:
this is the...

How could I do that?

[Wart_Hog]

Hi,
I whipped up this little php script, hopefully it helps.

<?
// Define the Function
function print_link($string, $url){
    $str = $string;
    list($one,$two,$three) = explode(' ',$str);
    print '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$one.' '.$two.' '.$three.'...';
}
// Print the Link
print_link('Dan likes to drool on dogs','http://www.dandrools.com');
?>

When called, this function will print out the first three words of what text you enter followed by "...". In this example, it will print "Dan likes to...".

-Mike

[Che]

Nice work! That absolutely works, sweet!

[Wart_Hog]

I'm glad this helped. I must admit when I posted this, I was a bit sleep deprived and I missed a very important part: the "</a>" part. I appologize for that. Here's some non-sleepy code:

<?
// Define the Function
function print_link($string, $url){
    $str = $string;
    list($one,$two,$three) = explode(' ',$str);
    print '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$one.' '.$two.' '.$three.'...</a>';
}
// Print the Link
print_link('Dan likes to drool on dogs','http://www.dandrools.com');
?>

This will now render:
<a href="http://www.dandrools.com">Dan likes to...</a>

-Mike

[Che]

S'alright,

I would never expect anybody to do ALL the thinking for me! Thanks for the help!

BTW - in your example, my 80's brain keeps finishing the szentence as "Dan likes to..." - PARTY ALL THE TIME, PARTY ALL THE TIME, PARTY ALL THE TIIIIME. From Eddie Murphy's eighties music album, believe it or not! Anyway, ahem, back to work....

[Wart_Hog]

Your welcome...
I've been a bit 90's the past 2 days. I get this in my head:

Dan likes to... punp up the jam a little more get your doggy droolin' on the dance floor.

but thats just me...