Kevin,
Your program certainly makes very good sense to me.
However, 2 things i will need to ask you.. is that,
let's say i decide i want the first 4 words from the
record displayed.. for all the 4 rows i'm displaying..
where do i define that in your program?
And secondly, how do i make this program work on the
myrow[myfield] variable which will actually carry the
record from the database?
thanks,
Rahul
> I don't know how to do it within the SQL query.. or
> even if it's possible.
> But you can always gather the results as normal and
> build a function within
> php that chops up each line into words and uses the
> first few words as an
> abreviative text. If you want the strings to be of
> uniform length (or to
> ensure a minimum length) then you could do something
> with the strlen() and
> strpos() functions. This simple function that I
> wrote cares only about the
> number of words in the abreviation. It's rather
> crude but you're welcome to
> use it if it helps you..
>
> function abreviate_text($str, $num_words)
> {
> // $str parameter must be an alpha numeric
> string
> if (!is_string($str))
> return false;
>
> // $num_words parameter must be a non-zero
> integer value
> if (!is_integer($num_words) || $num_words == 0)
> return false;
>
> // split the string on all single spaces
> $words = explode(' ', $str);
>
> // build abreviated text..
> $abr = array();
> for($i=0; $i<$num_words; $i++)
> {
> $abr[] = $words[$i];
> }
> $abr = implode(' ', $abr);
> $abr .= "...";
>
> return $abr;
> }
>
> - Kevin
>
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