note 39018 added to function.substr

From: Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:47:12 +0000
Subject: note 39018 added to function.substr
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I wrote some code for people who have built a search-engine with PHP. The function makes it possible to summarize each search result on a smarter way than te normal substr() function. <?php function substr_index($text, $maxChars = 20, $splitter = '...') { $theReturn = $text; $lastSpace = false; if (strlen($text) > $maxChars) { $theReturn = substr($text, 0, $maxChars - 1); if (in_array(substr($text, $maxChars - 1, 1), array(' ', '.', '!', '?'))) { $theReturn .= substr($text, $maxChars, 1); } else { $theReturn = substr($theReturn, 0, $maxChars - strlen($splitter)); $lastSpace = strrpos($theReturn, ' '); if ($lastSpace !== false) { $theReturn = substr($theReturn, 0, $lastSpace); } if (in_array(substr($theReturn, -1, 1), array(','))) { $theReturn = substr($theReturn, 0, -1); } $theReturn .= $splitter; } } return $theReturn; } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+39018 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+39018&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+39018&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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