Strippting paragraphs.

[Anon]

Hey all,

I would like to query the database and if the result comes back with multilple sentences I would like to take the paragraph and strip everything except the first sentence. I'm sure there is a tag out there to do so. I looked through the manual and couldn't come up with much.

Thanks for the help

[daynah]

I don't know if there is a tag to do this... but here is what I would do:

1) save the query string into a variable, say, $mystring

2) Parse the variable by "." -- The period, since it ends the sentence. Enter each part into an array. You can use the function explode() for this

3) Explode() returns an array. So the first sentence would be the first array item.

Example:
$mysentces = explode(".", $mystring);

$mysentces[0] would have the first sentence. You may want to refer to http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php to see how explode() works. I hope that helps. 🙂