RE: [PHP] Splitting Text

You can do this several ways... Either use explode(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php ...to split the retrieved data by a space " " as the delimeter, then use a for() loop to print X number of words... E.g.: $array = explode(" ", $db_string); for($i = 0; $i < 25; $i++) echo $array[$i]; (That will print the first 25 words...) Or, another way to do it is to use strtok() to tokenize the string... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtok.php The manual has a good example of tokenizing a string into individual words... -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Elver [mailto:jord.elver@virgin.net] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 5:20 PM To: PHP General Mailing List Subject: [PHP] Splitting Text Hi, Can anyone give some pointers for my problem. I want to pull articles out of a db and then show the first x number of words with a read more link to the rest of the article. Could someone point me in the right direction. I've seen a code snippet for this, but now I can't find it :-( TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Oops, my brain just hit a bad sector! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net