note 95249 added to function.str-word-count

I find this approach to be much more practical than using the word count function, which depending on the size of your text string, it can be very resource intensive. Instead of putting all the words in an array, we decide the approximate number of characters we want (600 in this case) then find the next space in the string and get its numerical location. Then we splice out the part of the string we want. Hope this helps someone. if(strlen($text_string) > 600){ $truncate = strpos($text_string, ' ', 600); $extrafield_value = substr($extrafield_value, 0, $truncate) . '...'; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 71.197.38.29 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/95249 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95249 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/95249 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php