Re: Splitting Text

Thanks for that. I ended up using your method as using the LEFT function in a SELECT only grabs characters. Cheers, Jord On Monday 06 August 2001 17:37, you wrote: > 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 Web Developer The InternetOne UK Ltd