note 18858 added to function.substr
| From: | kevin at intuitive dot net | Date: | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:16:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 18858 added to function.substr | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
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PHP really needs a substr_index function to return x number of words from a string.
One workaroung is by using mysql:
select SUBSTRING_INDEX(field, ' ', 50) FROM tablename
The " " is what you wish to index, this this case a space. "50" is the amount of
words you wish to return
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http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php
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