note 57166 deleted from function.str-word-count by danbrown

Note Submitter: webmaster at joshstmarie dot com ---- Trying to make an effiecient word splitter, and "paragraph limiter", eg, limit item text to 100, or 200 words and so-forth. I don't know how well this compares, but it works nicely. function trim_text($string, $word_count=100) { $trimmed = ""; $string = preg_replace("/\040+/"," ", trim($string)); $stringc = explode(" ",$string); echo sizeof($stringc); if($word_count >= sizeof($stringc)) { // nothing to do, our string is smaller than the limit. return $string; } elseif($word_count < sizeof($stringc)) { // trim the string to the word count for($i=0;$i<$word_count;$i++) { $trimmed .= $stringc[$i]." "; } if(substr($trimmed, strlen(trim($trimmed))-1, 1) == '.') return trim($trimmed).'..'; else return trim($trimmed).'...'; } } $text = "some test text goes in here, I'm not sure, but ok."; echo trim_text($text,5);