PHP Display

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Hello all im after is the function name that i need to use to set how many words i want displayed in a news article.

I have ben looking but my head is not working yet so i was running into walls.

Thanks in advance.

 

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Yeh sorry i meant characters say around the first 200. Im not to fussed about the link appearing if there is more as the link is for people to leave comments, check the blog link in my sig to see what i have. I just need the entries to display 200 chars.