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using ellipses to truncate data in a cell

Asked by seanpowell in PHP Scripting Language

I have a td cell that shows data from a 1000 character input text box.
Can I display this:

<td>Display only the first 100 characters of a ....</td>

instead of

<td>Display all 1000 characters etc, etc.</td>

by automatically inserting an ellipses after a certain number of characters?
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             <table class="records">
<tr>
        <th>q1</th>
        <th>q2</th>
</tr>
<?
 
mysql_select_db($database_athconn, $athconn);
$query = "SELECT * FROM results";
$result = mysql_query($query, $athconn);
$num = mysql_numrows($result);
mysql_close();
$i=0;
while ($i < $num)
{
        $field1= mysql_result($result,$i,"q1");
        $field2= mysql_result($result,$i,"q2");
 
echo "<tr><td>$field1</td><td>$field2</td></tr>";
 
$i++;
}
 
?>
</table>

           
         

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using ellipses to truncate data in a cell

Asked by seanpowell in PHP Scripting Language

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