Adding (news)records to news scroller

Hi,

I want to insert the 3 first records of a news listing to a javascript news scroller, so that the scroller will always show the latest (3) news (title + content) added into the cms. Below is my code:

TOP OF PAGE:
<?php

require_once "/home/cooxmoto/public_html/beheer/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($nieuwsRecords, $nieuwsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'nieuws',
'limit' => '3',
'loadUploads' => '0',
'allowSearch' => '0',
));

?>

2 VARIABLES USED: <?php echo $record['title'] ?> and <?php echo $record['content'] ?>

JAVASCRIPT (where the actual content is added):
<script type="text/javascript">
var pausecontent=new Array()
pausecontent[0]='<a href="news.php">Title (1)</a>Content (1)'
pausecontent[1]='<a href="news.php">Title (2)</a>Content (2)'
pausecontent[2]='<a href="news.php">Title (3)</a>Content (3)'
</script>

The script works well with static data, but i want it to fetch the 3 latest records and display them automatically. I hope it can be done, but i'm a newbie to PHP so pls can you help ? Thanks !!



I also want to limit the amount of words (characters) of the content each time, i think this can be done with this function?:

<?php
function cutText($string, $setlength) { $length = $setlength; if($length<strlen($string)){ while (($string{$length} != " ") AND ($length > 0)) { $length--; } if ($length == 0) return substr($string, 0, $setlength); else return substr($string, 0, $length); }else return $string; }
?php>