How to limit character on $post_title?

[Divvy]

Hello guys,

Can someone please help me?
I need to limit character on title using the variable $post_title, how can I do it?

This is my code:

<a target="_blank" href="<?php echo get_post_meta($ID,'mr_freeGalleryUrl',true); ?>" rel="nofollow"><?php echo $post_title; ?></a>

Waiting for your precious help, thanks

Kind regards

 

[Tango]

If you google there are many answers given.

Here is a plugin to make it easier https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-post-titles/

 

[Divvy]

Thank you my friend!

But I dont want to use plugins for this... I need to change my code.
Do you have any idea how to do it?

Thanks once again

Btw, I tried that plugin and is only to limit number of characters in title field, I need to appears something like:

Original line:

this is only an example of what I need

With limit of 25 characters:

this is only an example of...

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[LowVM]

You need to use char limit.

Look at php char limit code and use it in your wordpress file.

I no longer remember how to do this but I find this from stackoverflow site.

function echo_200($str){
    echo substr($row['style-info'], 0, 200);
}

echo_200($str);

Put function code to your wordpress function.php and use echo code in any file where you want to put limitation.