character_limiter or word_limiter

Hi,

I’m PHP newbie and can’t find a solution for this:
My website prints correctly a product description, which is sometimes very long. Therefore I would like to limit the text to e.g. 100 words and then display “read more…” which would initiate a javascript to display the rest of the text.

I’m reading about character_limiter or word_limiter but Latin for me…
Here’s what I currently have and what works fine:
[php]<?php echo nl2br($property->description(null, null, true)); ?>[/php]

Please advise how to proceed. Many thanks.
Frank

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_text-overflow.asp

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