Re: Newbie Question: breaking a substr() string on a space SOLVED

Hi, everyone, Thanks for the great suggestions! I've looked at all and found that the one here: http://www.php.net/explode that Jay recommended was the easiest for me to wrap my brain around. I wll tinker with the other ones as well - it's all really interesting. The function was: function wordlimit($string, $length = 50, $ellipsis = "...") { $paragraph = explode(" ", $string); if($length < count($paragraph)) {

       for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
       {
           if($i < $length - 1)
               $output .= $paragraph[$i] . " ";
           else
               $output .= $paragraph[$i] . $ellipsis;
       }

       return $output;

} return $string; } And boy does it work easily!!! Thanks again all who replied. Jack On 11 Mar 2005, at 12:36, Richard Lynch wrote:

Hi, everyone, I'm 'teasers' of the first, say 200 to 250 characters of some articles. This works great:

     $content = strip_tags($article['content']);
     $striptease = substr($content, 0, 275);

but cuts off words right in the midd ... I'd like to find a way to take $content, look at the first 250 characters, then count backwards to the last space and chop it there. Does anyone have an ideas/scripts for this?

$pos = strpos($content, ' '); $pos = $pos ? $pos : strlen($content); $teaser = substr($content, 0, $pos); -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm