elipsis in title, words

okay I have seen many places where there is maybe an elipses [...] in the title or words of a search or jsut display of things. How can this be achieved? ie:

In todays news, many said, ... [more]

you know, that sort of thing. And the link goes to the full story.
thank you.

A simple method I've seen used many times is to have 2 textareas. The first is the "introductory paragraph" and the 2nd is the rest of the body...

What you can do is place the ellipses after the contents of the first textarea.

Thanks, I'll try that, but what about a php function that can cut a sentence off after a certain amount of words or characters? It seems like I had seen something like that before...

Yeah, just browse through the function reference at php.net and you'll find that with substr(), you can truncate a string for this type of display.



Should output: "Hello, W. . . [more]"

thank you for that, that's just what I was looking for. I knew there was a function for it, but couldn't think of it, and don't know a lot of more advanced php things. thanks again!