Creating snippet

I would like to include a portion of the text from the content area of one page (A) as a “snippet” on my websites home page (?. The text in the content area on page (A) comes from a text file via php [I]include[/I]. I know I can use ‘[I]substr[/I]‘ to display the number of characters I want on page (? as the snippet but I can’t seem to figure out how to retrieve to text from the text file. I can’t seem to use [I]include[/I] and [I]substr[/I] for the snippet text, I’m assuming because of the way it’s executed.

I do not currently have a database is the reason for the include file.

The text file is updated by users and I would like for the ‘snippet’ to reflect what the current discussion is whenever the home page is loaded.

I am new to php and would appreciate any help or guidance you can give.

Thanks

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