substr($message, start, length);

Limit Display Characters From Your Text

This php script helps you limit displaying characters form you message and not cut your word.

<?

$position=14; // Define how many character you want to display.

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message, 0, $position);

echo $post;
echo "...";

?>

<?
$position=14; // Define how many characters you want to display.

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message,$position,1); // Find what is the last character displaying. We find it by getting only last one character from your display message.

if($post !=" "){ // In this step, if last character is not " "(space) do this step .

// Find until we found that last character is " "(space)
// by $position+1 (14+1=15, 15+1=16 until we found " "(space) that mean character 20)
while($post !=" "){
$i=1;
$position=$position+$i;

$message="You are now joining over 2000 current";
$post = substr($message,$position,1);
}

}

$post = substr($message,0,$position); // Display your message
echo $post;
echo "...";
?>