how to display articles

[samiullah478]

i want to display the first lines of articles or stories
and a option of read more how to do this plz kindly guide me. :queasy:
Basics of becoming Muslim
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Beliefs and Practices

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[vaaaska]

There are alot of ways to do this...but basically it goes like this...

• strip html tags out
• explode works into an array
• get the number of words you need
• output

This is an old thing I have laying around for doing this...but like I said, there are really alot of approaches you can consider for doing this...

function reduceWords($text,$num)
{
	$text = strip_tags($text);
	if (!$text) return NULL;

// reduce number of words to a constant amount
$text = explode(" ", $text);
$n = count($text);

if ($n <= $num) {

	// outputs all text if it's less than your $num
	$text = implode(" ", $text);
	return $text;

} else {

	// this is where it really reduces things...
	$text = array_slice($text, 0, $num-5);
	$text = implode(" ", $text);
	return "$text...";

}
}

Call it up...

echo reduceWords($yourString,50);

[samiullah478]

Brother plz little explain this code more what it is doing i am new to php.

[vaaaska]

It's a function. Copy and paste that into your script someplace. Then, when you get to the part where you are outputting your reduced text put in the function call:

echo reduceWords($theString,50); // 50 is the number of words to output

What more should I explain? I spelled it out before the function example above...