string manipultation

[houssam_ballout]

Hello,I had this case:Text is stored in mysql table in the means of html, i.e. it contains <p> ,<br /> .... I want to display it on a php page, I had 2 questions: I want to display the first 400 characters, then the second 300 each on different <div> , so I need to save them each on different variable? and what about html tags?Thanks

[justsomeguy]

You don't necessarily need to save each part in a different variable, if you're using string functions like substr then you can display a certain part of the string. You'll need to figure out how you want to handle HTML tags though, because you wouldn't want to break up the string in the middle of an element and you probably don't want to take the number of characters in the HTML tags into account. You'll need to think about how you want to handle that.