Long day at work, now my Google is failing me for what was meant to be a quick alteration. I want a preview of the first x characters of a larger block of text stored in mysql database. I've retrieved the string, now how can I cut the first so many characters out into a new variable? 
Apologies if this is really simple, I'm picking up PHP as I go along because there's a delay on my book order, I got bored of waiting...
Apologies if this is really simple, I'm picking up PHP as I go along because there's a delay on my book order, I got bored of waiting...
