wnat to know if this is possible ...

[nomad9]

Hi!

my page (list.php) contain a list of many article (list by title). When a user click on a article title, a popup open and he can view the entire article.

these article are in my db in a field TEXT and i want to know if i can extract like the first 250 characters to display a little piece on list.php ... so the user have a little idea of the article.

I know i can extract some characters but i don't want to display a word cut (ex. "In this art ...") know what i mean !!!

So, can i extract like 250 ch and verify to not cut word in 2 ???

Thanx

Steve

[TTT]

$wholeTitle = "really long text... over 250 characters..."
$smallPiece = substr($wholeTitle,0,251); // 1 over

// validation
if((substr($smallPiece,-1) == " " && substr($smallPiece,-2,-1) !=" ") ) || (substr($smallPiece,-1) != " " && substr($smallPiece,-2,-1) == " ") {
echo $smallPiece;
} else {
$smallPiece = substr($smallPiece,0,strrpos(substr($smallPiece,0,250), " "));
echo $smallPiece;

}

...something like that. ...

[tuf-web_co_uk]

ok, its possible to show a certain number of chars in a string, but i dont think itd be possible to not cut words in to 2, because in theory if you have 2 make it so you go back so it doesnt cut a word up or if you go further into the string, then your getting more or less than the desired number of chars. if you understand me!

anyways heres how to do it, in your loop where you have a var something like $row[text] change it with this

$text = substr("$row[text]", 0, 250);
$text .= "....";

echo $text;

[nomad9]

thanx to you ... i found this,

$maxTextLength = 125;
$aspace = " ";
if(strlen($text) > $maxTextLength ) {
$text = substr(trim($text),0,$maxTextLength); 
$text = substr($text,0,strlen($text)-strpos(strrev($text),$aspace));
$text = $text.'...';
}

so tuf-web.co.uk ... never say impossible