strlen help.

I have a textarea where the users submit info. After they submit it, it goes into the database.

What I need is to make something to limit the text to 500 characters.

It should not give them any errors, it should submit the data BUT cut off everything after the 500 character point. Something short and simple as possible, the code is very heavy already

 

$user_text = substr($user_text, 0, 500);

PHP:

 

Thank you