Question2Answer: Get excerpt of the question to display on the question list. Make sure your q2a function should get post id in array otherwise this code won't work.

q2am-question-excerpt.php

<?php
  	$pid = $q_item['raw']['postid'];

	$query = qa_db_query_sub("SELECT postid, content, format FROM ^posts WHERE postid = $pid");
	$cont = qa_db_read_one_assoc($query);			

	$blockwordspreg = qa_get_block_words_preg();

	$text=qa_viewer_text($cont['content'], $cont['format'], array('blockwordspreg' => $blockwordspreg));
	$text=qa_shorten_string_line(qa_html($text), 200); //200 is the length

	$this->output('<p class="your-class-for-text">',$text,'</p>'); //you can remove 'p' if you don't want
?>

and where need to add this code? some help ...