Urgent:Is there alternative to substr?:
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:43 am
Is there an alternatiuve to substr,
My problem:
I need to extract only the first 30 words from my body column from my mysql database table, for displaying on my pagination page,
Liek these gys do it down teh center of there page:, and display ... after some text:
http://www.articlealley.com/
how can i do this with top performance, i ahev thousands of records, is substr the only way?
Thanks in advance
kind regards
Tovia Singer
My problem:
I need to extract only the first 30 words from my body column from my mysql database table, for displaying on my pagination page,
Liek these gys do it down teh center of there page:, and display ... after some text:
http://www.articlealley.com/
how can i do this with top performance, i ahev thousands of records, is substr the only way?
Thanks in advance
kind regards
Tovia Singer