Showing Part Of The Content For Description By Mysql

[Alg0r1thm]

Hi brothers ,
I have a file archive.php that contains the last posts and it shows the title of the subjects but I wanna also show the part of the subject description I mean part of the text in archive.php , Assume that is archive.php :

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pages : 1 2


I want to show short description that is fetched from the database with what mysql function can I do it ?

I hope you understand ,

Thanks in advance

[JelvinJS7]

In the query, use the JOIN function. It works the same as the php substr function; first parameter is the field, second is the amount of characters you want.

[Alg0r1thm]

Can you show me an example ?

Thanks

[JelvinJS7]

I meant to say left… not join.

SELECT `title`, `date`, LEFT(`description`, 30) FROM `posts` WHERE `post_id` = {$id}

[jacek]

You can also do

SELECT `title`, `date`, SUBSTRING_INDEX(`description`, ' ', 30) FROM `posts` WHERE `post_id` = {$id}

which would give you the first 30 whole words. It just looks a little nicer I think