note 76543 deleted from function.str-word-count by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:26:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 76543 deleted from function.str-word-count by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Cathy
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A cute little function for truncating text to a given word limit:
<?php
function limit_text($text, $limit) {
if (strlen($text) > $limit) {
$words = str_word_count($text, 2);
$pos = array_keys($words);
$text = substr($text, 0, $pos[$limit]) . '...';
}
return $text;
}
?>