create excerpt?

[Fleeters]

just a quick question.. anyone got a quick script or link for creating excerpts?

[clamcrusher]

you mean like how to show the first 50 characters of a message?

[Fleeters]

exactly.

[clamcrusher]

substr()

if you want a smarter version that wont cut half a word off, i took this from the user comments on php.net

function myfragment($str, $n, $delim='...') {
   $len = strlen($str);
   if ($len > $n) {
       preg_match('/(.{' . $n . '}.*?)\b/', $str, $matches);
       return rtrim($matches[1]) . $delim;
   }
   else {
       return $str;
   }
}