How to limit character on $post_title?

Hello guys,

Can someone please help me?
I need to limit character on title using the variable $post_title, how can I do it?

This is my code:

<a target="_blank" href="<?php echo get_post_meta($ID,'mr_freeGalleryUrl',true); ?>" rel="nofollow"><?php echo $post_title; ?></a>

PHP:

Waiting for your precious help, thanks

Kind regards

 

just change the

<?php echo $post_title; ?>

PHP:

to

<?php echo substr($post_title,0,20).'&#8230;'; ?>

PHP:

which will output something like this:

<?php
$post_title = 'This is a post-title with more than 20 characters which will end up like';
echo substr($post_title,0,20).'&#8230;';
?>
//output: This is a post-title…

PHP:

If you don't want the horisontal ellipsis when the post title is below the amount set, you can just do something like this:

<?php

$length = 20;

$post_title = 'This is a post';
echo substr($post_title,0,$length).((strlen($post_title) > $length) ? '&#8230;' : '');

//output: This is a post

$post_title = 'This is a post-title with more than 20 characters which will end up like';
echo substr($post_title,0,$length).((strlen($post_title) > $length) ? '&#8230;' : '');

//output: This is a post-title...

?>

PHP:

 

Fixed!! Thank you my friend
You're my savior again

 

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Sure
But I cant see this button here, only in php forum...