shorting a string

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I was looking on php.net and could not find any command that will truncate a string to about 15 words. I just want to show the first 15 words of a string then stop.

Thanks

NogDog

One possibility:

preg_match('#^(\S+\s+){0,15}#', $text, $matches);
echo $matches[0];

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I am actually trying to get post text from my vbulletin forum to show I my website. How would I get rid of all vbulletin bbcode(formatting) most importantly the quoted text.

NogDog

If it's stuff in "[...]" tags, you could do:

$text = preg_replace('/\[[^\]]*\]/', '', $text);

However, you risk possibly replacing brackets that are not bbcode brackets. Better might be to run it through whatever processing vbulletin uses to convert bbcode into HTML, then run that through [man]strip_tags/man.

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NogDog;10927918 wrote:
If it's stuff in "[...]" tags, you could do:
$text = preg_replace('/\[[^\]]*\]/', '', $text);
However, you risk possibly replacing brackets that are not bbcode brackets. Better might be to run it through whatever processing vbulletin uses to convert bbcode into HTML, then run that through [man]strip_tags/man.

I don't believe that will work because, for instance if I quote your post like I did I don't want the whole quote to show up, and would that remove everything between the brackets too or just the brackets.

Thanks,
Jason