[SQL][PHP] Pobieranie konkretnej liczby znaków Opcje

[Sasuke Uchiha]

Chciałem ograniczyć w zapytaniu ilość pobieranych znaków z danego rekordu no i mam problem bo mam coś takiego

[PHP] pobierz, plaintext 
while($article_row = mysql_fetch_array($article_query))
{
$article_info = $article_row['info'];
    function shortString($article_info, $max) {
    if(strlen($article_info) > $max) {
    $article_info = substr($article_info,0,$max);
    if($pos = strrpos($article_info, ' ')) return substr($article_info, 0, $pos).'...';
    else return substr($article_info, 0, $max).'...';
    } else {
    return $article_info;
    }
    }
echo'
<table style="margin-top: 15px;margin-left: 15px;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><img src="img/lol_logo_art.jpg"></td><td style="padding-left: 5px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; font-color: #000000;text-align: justify; width: 300px;" valign="top"><a class="article_link" href="#"><font color="#ffcf1a" size="3px">'.$article_row['title'].'</font></a><br>'.$article_row['info'].'</td>
</tr>
</table>
  ';
} 
[PHP] pobierz, plaintext 

oraz błąd
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare shortstring() (previously declared in /article.php:31) in /article.php on line 31