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    copied!<p>The problem you have with your code is that you have some badly named variables. You assign the result resource returned by <code>mysql_query()</code> to <code>$result</code>, you then try and fetch a row from a variable called <code>$message</code> (which you don't show the assignment of) and you then switch to treating <code>$message</code> as if it were a string, rather than manipulating the value in <code>$row</code>.</p> <p>Regardless of that, if you just want to fetch the string from the DB and apply an ellipsis, and you don't need the full text, I would get MySQL to do the work for me:</p> <pre><code>SELECT IF(CHAR_LENGTH(`comment`) &gt; 10, CONCAT(SUBSTRING(`comment`, 1, 10), '...'), `comment`) AS `comment` FROM `Assembly` WHERE `title` = 'Checkered' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1 </code></pre> <p>In PHP:</p> <pre><code>$query = " SELECT IF(CHAR_LENGTH(`comment`) &gt; 10, CONCAT(SUBSTRING(`comment`, 1, 10), '...'), `comment`) AS `comment` FROM `Assembly` WHERE `title` = 'Checkered' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1 "; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "Last Post:&lt;br&gt;"; echo htmlspecialchars($row['comment']); } </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>Following @Jared's comments about the potential for broken strings displaying partial HTML tags, here is the way to do it that will avoid this:</p> <pre><code>$query = " SELECT `comment` FROM `Assembly` WHERE `title` = 'Checkered' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1 "; $result = mysql_query($query); // Loop is pointless because of the LIMIT 1 $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $maxlen = 10; // Max length before trim $comment = strip_tags($row['comment']); if (strlen($comment) &gt; $maxlen) { $comment = substr($comment, 0, $maxlen).'...'; } $comment = htmlspecialchars($comment); echo "Last Post:&lt;br&gt;"; echo $comment; </code></pre>
 

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