Short up text

How can i short up a text from a database and use a read more>>
for example if i receive from database this

Fair.Game.2010.LiMiTED.MULTi.1080p.BluRay.x264-LOST  (DISTEL) ; Fair.Game.2010.BRRip.AC3.H264-CRYS(sync:enriqo); Fair.Game.2010.DVDSCR.XViD.Absurdity; Fair.Game.2010.DVDSCR.XViD.AC3-T0XiC-iNK; Fair.Game.2010.DVDSCR.XViD-FooKaS.

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to be more short like this

Fair.Game.2010.LiMiTED.MULTi.1080p.BluRay.x264-LOST  (DISTEL) ; Fair.Game.2010.BRRip.AC3.H264-CRYS(sync:enriqo); Fair.Game.2010.DVDSCR.XViD.Absurdity; Fair.Game. Read more>>

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I found i post here maybe helps

function myTruncate($string, $limit, $break=".", $pad="...")
{
  // return with no change if string is shorter than $limit
  if(strlen($string) <= $limit) return $string;

  // is $break present between $limit and the end of the string?
  if(false !== ($breakpoint = strpos($string, $break, $limit))) {
    if($breakpoint < strlen($string) - 1) {
      $string = substr($string, 0, $breakpoint) . $pad;
    }
  }
    
  return $string;
}

PHP:

$description = "The World  Wide Web. When your average person on the street refers to
the Internet, they're usually thinking of the World Wide Web. The Web is basically a
series of documents shared with the world written in a coding language called Hyper Text
Markup Language or HTML. When you see a web page, like this one, you downloaded a document
from another computer which has been set up as a Web Server.";

PHP:

$shortdesc = myTruncate($description, 300);
  echo "<p>$shortdesc</p>";

PHP:

source http://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/truncate/

 

Thanks, I was searching for function which looks on break string, . in this case.
So it finds dot (".") in that limit and then truncates it to shorter string?

 

it may be possible to be shorter, but you can use one to a number of limited caracthers (but this trim your word) You can find more examples on the source site i posted.