[Resolved] List x amount of words?

artizan

Hi all...

I’ve seen many websites where they list an article but it only lists so many words. Then theres a link that says click here for the full article etc...

I’m guessing the link is dynamically generated and being pulled from a database. Can anyone please point me in the direction of a possible tutorial, or put a name to what im going on about

Many thanks
🙂

rehfeld

on the page thats linking to it, i imagine they are just using substr() to show the first x amount of chars, and then provide a link to the full article.

of course there a bit more to it than that, but thats the basics of it.

artizan

Thx for your reply...

do you know of any tutorials that cover this??

Thx again

artizan

Hi again
Have been looking at using substr() but im not sure if this will work for what I need (could be wrong)

Am I right in saying that if I use this command, I will need to know exactly how many chars ive typed when declaring the string? So if I change the text and more chars are created, again I will need to count them to prevent it from chopping half a word off? erm confusing myself now 😕
(for example)
This is a test article blah blah blah
Click link for full article

But using sub string would this happed
This is a test article blah blah bl
Click link for full article

Hope someone knows what I’m going on about...

Any help greatly appreciated

rpanning

Ah, I whipped up a function for this a while ago. Check out the thread here and here's the function. Basicly, if the givin string is shorter then the max length it will return the string. If the givin string is longer than the max length it will look for the last whitespace and take everything before it. Then it'll tack on the givin ending (default is ...) and return it.

string str_shorten ( string text, int max_length[, string ending])

function str_shorten($str, $len, $end='...')
{
    if ($len < strlen($str)) {
        $cut = substr($str, 0, $len);
        if ($str{$len} == ' ')
            $short = $cut . $end;
        elseif ($str{$len-1} == ' ')
            $short = rtrim($cut) . $end;
        elseif (($space = strrpos($cut, ' ')) !== false)
            $short = substr($cut, 0, $space) . $end;
        else
            $short = $cut . $end;
    } else
        $short = $str;
    return($short);
}

artizan

Originally posted by rpanning
Ah, I whipped up a function for this a while ago. Check out the thread here and here's the function. Basicly, if the givin string is shorter then the max length it will return the string. If the givin string is longer than the max length it will look for the last whitespace and take everything before it. Then it'll tack on the givin ending (default is ...) and return it.

string str_shorten ( string text, int max_length[, string ending])
function str_shorten($str, $len, $end='...')
{
    if ($len < strlen($str)) {
        $cut = substr($str, 0, $len);
        if ($str{$len} == ' ')
            $short = $cut . $end;
        elseif ($str{$len-1} == ' ')
            $short = rtrim($cut) . $end;
        elseif (($space = strrpos($cut, ' ')) !== false)
            $short = substr($cut, 0, $space) . $end;
        else
            $short = $cut . $end;
    } else
        $short = $str;
    return($short);
}
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Nice piece if code rpanning, I shall give this a try. Many thanks for your help ppl, greatly appreciated..