Showing part of a string

[pjb007]

Thanks for your reply!

I'm a newbie to PHP

I assume that these are the three lines I need?

<?php
//Number of words in chunk of text
$show = 22;
 
//Extract chunk from array into an array
$chunk = array_slice ($textArray, 0, $show);
 
//Convert array into string
$chunk = implode($chunk,' ');
 
?>

With $textArray being the in the database I want to cut down.

In my case $row_rsNewsItems['newsBody']

I have tried that and it won't work I guess I got it wrong.