how to make limit showing

[bekti]

(10-04-2012 01:06 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Look at how the rest of MyBB makes paging (in general, limits in select queries, take current page as an input variable).  Expect the complexity to go up a fair bit.

i not want to make a page...i want to make this..

for example i have 6 friends...then i just want to show 5 friends in member user, the other 1 is not showing..

just want to make limit like this

Code:

$post['message'] = my_substr($post['message'], 0, 250) . "...";

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but limit to show friends...can you help me?