Re: string effect

On 2/29/08, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > since a long time now, i see that some paragraphs of text are cut off and > the additional text is replaced by 3 dots. > e.g: > > "this is the original long text but without any sense and also stupid" > > effect desired : > "this is the original long text..." > > this is usually used for title articles or some long paragraphs. > What is the basic rule ? > Text is cut off based on (numbers of words, number of characters,..) ? > what is the algorithm for such thing ? > > thanks a lot, function truncate( $string, $length=384, $ending='...' ) { if( strlen( $string ) > $length ) $string = substr( $string, 0, $length ) . $ending ; return $string; } -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/