removing some text.

[rhx]

i'm trying to remove a portion of a sentence.

e.g.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi mi augue, mollis at, imperdiet in, elementum in, lorem.

to look like this...

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit... <read more>

using rtrim() doesn't work on me since the text comes from the database.

any thoughts on this one is greatly appreciated... thanks.

[adamalton]

There are several ways of doing it. If you want to just allow it to show x number of words then you could split it using substr(). Go to the php manual and type substr into the search box, should take you straight to the right page:
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/index.php

Or if you wanted to split it on a certain word you could use regular expressions to split it up. Look up preg_split (also preg_match, and preg_replace) in the php manual. And here for a brief explanation of regular expressions:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/

[rhx]

There are several ways of doing it. If you want to just allow it to show x number of words then you could split it using substr(). Go to the php manual and type substr into the search box, should take you straight to the right page:
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/index.php

Or if you wanted to split it on a certain word you could use regular expressions to split it up. Look up preg_split (also preg_match, and preg_replace) in the php manual. And here for a brief explanation of regular expressions:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/

thanks a lot adamalton!