Limiting words in a string...

Damascus

Hey, I got a question for you guys. Let's say I have a string (sentence), I want to be able to check to see how many words are in the string. If the amount of words exceed a certain amount (6) I want to cut the rest off and add "..." to the end.

example:

"Hello, my name is Damascus and I am cool"

"Hello, my name is Damascus..."

How would I go about doing something like this?

intenz

$strString = 'This is a string so behave or you wont get any cookie';
#$strString = 'This is a string so behave';
$arrString = explode(' ',$strString);
if(count($arrString) > 6)
{
     for($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++)
     {
          $strResults .= $arrString[$i] . ' ';
     }
     echo substr($strResults,0,-1) . '...';
}
else
      echo implode(' ',$arrString);

Damascus

Well, I was close:


		$tArray = explode(" ", $thread['topic_title']);

		if(count($tArray) > $titleLimit){

			for($i = 0; $i < $titleLimit; $i++){

				$thread .= $tArray[$i]." ";

			}

			$thread = $thread."...";

		}else{

			$thread = $thread['topic_title'];

		}

Thanks alot! 🙂

jroscoe

Originally posted by intenz

$strString = 'This is a string so behave or you wont get any cookie';
#$strString = 'This is a string so behave';
$arrString = explode(' ',$strString);
if(count($arrString) > 6)
{
     for($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++)
     {
          $strResults .= $arrString[$i] . ' ';
     }
     echo substr($strResults,0,-1) . '...';
}
else
      echo implode(' ',$arrString);

[/B]

Could this be done with a href also? Meaning, I have a form that emails driving directions to users. The string for the href is huge and the user would has to cut & paste the url from their email to their browser. I would like to show part of the url in the email with "..." at the end and they can then just click on the link and it takes them to the appropriate page. I see where mapquest does this with their emails they send if you choose tos end the directions to an email.

Thanks.