RE: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph
| From: | Matt Matijevich | Date: | Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:13:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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<snip>
$string = substr($stringname,0,50);
echo $string;
http://www.php.net/substr
</snip>
That will just give the first 50 characters of the string.
You could just try one of the many suggestions on
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php
Scroll down to the user comments and there is a bunch of examples.