[ashdavies]

Hi,

So I’m trying to display the latest topic of a forum on the home page with a link to that forum.

How do I go about limiting the output to 40 characters?

Currently I’m using this code

<td class="num"><?php echo "<a href='"; topic_last_post_link(forum_last_topic_id()); echo "'>"; topic_title(forum_last_topic_id()); echo "</a>"; ?></td>

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Ash

[abdessamad idrissi]

you got lot of echos there man!.. make it simple

<td class="num">

<?php echo "<a href='" . topic_last_post_link(forum_last_topic_id()). "'>". topic_title(forum_last_topic_id())."</a>"; ?>

</td>

to limit the characters, use the substr php function -google it