Hi, everyone,
Thanks for the great suggestions! I've looked at all and found that the one here:
http://www.php.net/explode
that Jay recommended was the easiest for me to wrap my brain around. I wll tinker with the other ones as well - it's all really interesting.
The function was:
function wordlimit($string, $length = 50, $ellipsis = "...")
{
$paragraph = explode(" ", $string); if($length < count($paragraph))
{
for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
{
if($i < $length - 1)
$output .= $paragraph[$i] . " ";
else
$output .= $paragraph[$i] . $ellipsis;
}return $output; }
return $string; }
And boy does it work easily!!!
Thanks again all who replied. Jack
On 11 Mar 2005, at 12:36, Richard Lynch wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I'm 'teasers' of the first, say 200 to 250 characters of some articles.
This works great:
$content = strip_tags($article['content']); $striptease = substr($content, 0, 275);
but cuts off words right in the midd ...
I'd like to find a way to take $content, look at the first 250 characters, then count backwards to the last space and chop it there.
Does anyone have an ideas/scripts for this?
$pos = strpos($content, ' '); $pos = $pos ? $pos : strlen($content); $teaser = substr($content, 0, $pos);
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