Need a quick hand cutting some text off.

Hey guys,

I'm working on a fairly simple site, a directory showing different blogs...their post counts, their article counts and recent posts all appear on my homepage.

This is the code I am using to call the recent comment:

<?php
require_once('wp-blog-header.php');
$count_posts = wp_count_posts();
$published_posts = $count_posts->publish;
?>

<?php  query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
        <?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

PHP:

That is in a file called recent-article.php.

I then use a php include to display recent-article.php on my website. The problem is the space the recent title needs to fit in is only about 150px wide, and if there is a really long blog title it will jump out of the little box it shows in. So here's my question...

Is there a way to shorten down / cut off the end of the text?

For example, how could I turn:

"10 ways to get seen in Google, Yahoo and Ask"

to

"10 ways to..."

Thanks guys.

 

www.php.net/substr

echo strlen($text > 125) ? substr($text, 0, 125) . '...' : $text;

PHP:

Good enough?