two strings.

[seby]

$text = "the cow said moo";

$words = explode(' ', strip_tags($text));
$count = count($words);

echo $count; // output 4

now say i want to add: $text2 = "the cat said meow";
to $text so it outputs 8, how i do that?

Also, is there a function that will strip html? I do not want html to be counted into the total.

thanx.

[dalecosp]

I thought the cow jumped over the moon. 😃

//THE CONCATENATION OPERATOR!!!!!

$str="the little dog laughed" . " to see such sport";
//now, $str will have 8 words...

For your other ?? I recommend the manual . You are already using such a function....

[dalecosp]

And then, of course, there's this:

$str="the dish ran away";
$str.="um, with the spoon";
//once again, 8 mots....

[seby]

yeah i was already using strip_tags, but i didn't know it stripped all html... Guess it does because i tested it 😃

thanx

[edwardsbc]

Which is exactly the problem with most php newbies, they are just guessing. KNOW! Read the Manual