Re: splitting text after 25 words

$teaser = explode(" ", $article, 26)); array_pop($teaser); $teaser = implode(" ", $teaser); /* Chris Lambert, CTO - chris@whitecrown.net WhiteCrown Networks - More Than White Hats Web Application Security - www.whitecrown.net */ ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin French <justin@indent.com.au> To: php <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:57 AM Subject: [PHP] splitting text after 25 words | Hi all, | | I'd like to split a text block at 25 words, as a teaser for the full | article. Now I know how to split at a certain character, but i don't | want a half word or anything, so I want (i guess) to hunt for the 25th | occurence of " " (a space), and split $text into two new variables, | $text_a and $text_b. | | Then I'll prolly want append something like "... click here to read | more" on the end of $text_a. | | Seems easy enough, but I can't see anything in the manual about | splitting on a numbered occurence of a string (but I could be looking | in the wrong spot :) | | Running PHP4 BTW | | | | Thanks heaps in advance | Justin French | | -- | 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 | | |