Printing and exploded array

[drucifer]

Ok, so I have an array of words seperated having 'exploded' a load fo text from mysql. Now I'm looking for a method to print only the first 20 words or so (to be followed by a 'click for full story link'....There must be a better way then my current method which is this:

printf ("%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s...",
$text[0], $text[1], $text[2], $text[3], $text[4], $text[5], $text[6],
$text[7], $text[8], $text[9], $text[10], $text[11], $text[12], $text[13], $text[14], $text[15], $text[16], $text[17]);

Can anyone tell me how to print the first 20 parts of an array in one line of code???

Pretty please.....

[Weedpacket]

A combination of print() (no need for printf()), [man]join[/man] (with spaces) and [man]array_slice[/man] (to get a slice of the array)...

[drucifer]

so simple yet I was scouring the function list for hours and still missed that one..had tried implode before but without the array_slice which has sorted it.

As for the printf thing, I know, a bad habit I got into when I started PHP and can't seem to shake.

cheers man!

[feldon23]

What's wrong with

for ($i = 0; $i <= 19; $i++) {
  echo $text[$i];
}