TRying to export my rss feed. For one of my rss tags I have <preview> where it will display the first sentence of a string.
How do I go about this? From a string of a article, I want to have just the first sentence saved as a new string.
[RESOLVED] Max string length, is it possible to have it end to the first period?
finally found a link for this, however sometimes it will say L.A. in the sentence anyway to overcome that?
Advanced: Return all data BEFORE a given character/string
I can also print all of the data that occurs before a certain character or string component occurs. This is an advanced technique that requires 2 functions: substr() and strops(). Currently, my $string variable consists of two sentences. By using a clever combination of substr() and $strpos, I can cut off the entire second sentence, leaving me with only the first.
<?php
$string = "The Boston Red Sox lost because of poor pitching, bad defense, and a lack of offense. That doesn’t leave much, does it?";
$newstring = substr($string, 0, strpos($string, "."));
echo($newstring);
?>
This would print:
The Boston Red Sox lost because of poor pitching, bad defense, and a lack of offense