Website creation query - too much text!

[robjf]

Right i am developing a site on my computer and the index.php page will, to begin with, have a very long article. Whats the easiest way to truncate it so theres only a certain number of words shown, then theres a link to another page with the full article, or the continuation of the text.

Im trying my best to make the site simple to maintain with regards to adding articles etc. Hope you understand and ill be really greatful for any advice!

Thanks, Rob

 

[robjf]

Ah thankyou kindly i knew it would be something relatively easy!

Now how would you recommend i structure the site? Lets say every week a new article gets put on the site (probably just in a text file thats read in by php, for now anyway). How would i do it so that aswell as a section of the article appearing on the index page, it also had its own page. I guess this is getting into the territory of having lots of includes. Just not sure how to structure the site.

Cheers,

Rob

 

[robjf]

Because i gave myself the challenge of making the site from scratch. Now ive got a fairly long way already considering my original php knowledge. Its just a project for myself to be honest, to get to know php and web design more in general.

So any ideas about the structure?

 

[robjf]

I am currently developping a completly stand alone system along the lines of what you are making. Msn on profile if you would like more info

Adding now, cheers for the info!