Originally Posted by enigma $text = substr($title,0,100);

Note that substr() is not UTF-8 compatible and can screw up non-ascii characters. Instead use mb_substr().

And if you are interested in a function that will preserve full words, I created text::limit_chars() for Kohana long time ago: http://dev.kohanaphp.com/browser/tru...p?rev=3366#L40