trimming news & articles to guests

if(iGUEST){
echo trimlink(nl2br(striplashes($data['news_body'])), 500);
}elseif(iMEMBER){
echo nl2br(striplashes($data['news_body']));
}

function render_news($subject, $news, $info) {
   if(iGUEST){
      $text = substr($news,0,500).'...';
   }elseif(iMEMBER){
      $text = $news;
   }
   echo "<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' style='width:100%;'>";
   echo "<tr>";
   echo "<td class='capmain-left'></td>\n";
   echo "<td class='capmain'>".$subject."</td>\n";
   echo "<td align='right' class='capmain-right'></td>\n";
   echo "</tr>\n";
   echo "</table>\n";
   echo "<table width='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>";
   echo "<tr>";
   echo "<td class='purple-left'></td>";
   echo "<td class='main-body middle-border'>".$text."</td>\n";
   echo "<td align='right' class='purple-right'></td>";
   echo "</tr>\n<tr>\n";
   echo "<td class='purple-left'></td>";
   echo "<td align='center' class='news-footer middle-border'>\n";
   echo newsposter($info," &middot;").newsopts($info,"&middot;").itemoptions("N",$info['news_id']);
   echo "</td>\n";
   echo "<td align='right' class='purple-right'></td>";
   echo "</tr>\n";
   echo "</table>\n";
   echo "<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' style='width:100%;'>";
   echo "<tr>";
   echo "<td><img src='".THEME."images/purple-btm-left.png' alt='purple-btm-left.png' /></td>\n";
   echo "<td class='purple-btm' style='width:100%;'></td>\n";
   echo "<td align='right'><img src='".THEME."images/purple-btm-right.png' alt='purple-btm-right.png' /></td>\n";
   echo "</tr>\n";
   echo "</table>\n";
   echo "<div class='spacer'></div>\n";

}