PHP Dynamic Count & Limit Menu items - php

Question

I want to modify this code which works pretty good but (or I don't know because I'm new with php) I can't limit the number of li's displayed for the main elements in the menu. The actual code will echo all elements it finds, I want to limit the times
<li><a href='{$sLink}' {$sOnclick} target='_parent'>{$sPictureRep}{$sText}</a>
this line is echoed.. let's say to echo just the first 15 elements + a "MORE" button under which to display the rest of the elements as sub-menus.. (this is a 2 level horizontal menu). Can someone please help me? I really tried a lot but I'm not an expert in PHP..
Thanks!
<?php
require_once( '../../../inc/header.inc.php' );
require_once( DIRECTORY_PATH_INC . 'membership_levels.inc.php' );
require_once( DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT . "templates/tmpl_{$tmpl}/scripts/TemplMenu.php" );
class SimpleMenu extends TemplMenu
{
function getCode()
{
$this->iElementsCntInLine = 100;
$this->getMenuInfo();
$this->genTopItems();
return $this->sCode;
}
function genTopItem($sText, $sLink, $sTarget, $sOnclick, $bActive, $iItemID, $isBold = false, $sPicture = '')
{
$sActiveStyle = ($bActive) ? ' id="tm_active"' : '';
if (!$bActive) {
$sAlt= $sOnclick ? ( ' alt="' . $sOnclick . '"' ) : '';
$sTarget = $sTarget ? ( ' target="_parent"' ) : '';
}
$sLink = (strpos($sLink, 'http://') === false && !strlen($sOnclick)) ? $this->sSiteUrl . $sLink : $sLink;
$sSubMenu = $this->getAllSubMenus($iItemID);
$sImgTabStyle = $sPictureRep = '';
if ($isBold && $sPicture != '') {
$sPicturePath = getTemplateIcon($sPicture);
$sPictureRep = "<img src='{$sPicturePath}' style='vertical-align:middle;width:16px;height:16px;' />";
$sText = ' ';
$sImgTabStyle = 'style="width:38px;"';
}
$sMainSubs = ($sSubMenu=='') ? '' : " {$sSubMenu} </a>";
$this->sCode .= "
<li><a href='{$sLink}' {$sOnclick} target='_parent'>{$sPictureRep}{$sText}</a>
<div id='submenu'>
<ul>
<li>{$sMainSubs}</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
";
}
}
$objMenu = new SimpleMenu();
echo "<ul id='ddmenu'>";
echo $objMenu->getCode();
echo "</ul>";
?>

Answer 1

It's difficult to tell exactly where you want to do this in your code, but I figure you're looking for something like:
<?php
for ($i = 0; i < 15; i ++){
echo "<li><a href='{$sLink}' {$sOnclick} target='_parent'>{$sPictureRep}{$sText}</a>"
}
echo "<li><a href='more' target='_parent'>More...</a>"
?>