break up article at third paragraph

[vzwhaley]

Hello everyone and thanks much for your past help!

I want to list the first three paragraphs from an article on a page, then have a link for the full article after the third paragraph.

I am relatively new to PHP and know how to take care of this in ASP, but I am racking my brain of how to break it apart at the third paragraph.

I have been playing around with the following, but to no avail. It doesn't break it off at the third paragraph. Any help would be much appreciated!

<?php if ($RSMiddle1['Body'] != "") {

$str = $RSMiddle1['Body'];
$cols = explode(chr(13),$str);

$i = 0;
while ($i < count($cols))
  {

  $PG1 = $cols[$i];
  $PG2 = $cols[$i + 1];
  $PG3 = $cols[$i + 2];

  echo $PG1 . "<p>". $PG2 . "<p>" . $PG3 . "<p>";

  $i += 2;
  $i++;
  }
}
?>

[bpat1434]

Hmm... I think you might want chr(10), not chr(13)

Or even just use:

$cols = explode("\n", $str);

~Brett