note 36784 deleted from function.substr by aidan
| From: | aidan@php.net | Date: | Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:56:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 36784 deleted from function.substr by aidan | ||
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Note Submitter: xeen DOT(lol) dc AT(lol) web DOT(lol) de
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I read the functions above how to substr a string but don't break in the middle of words. I
searched for a function which doesn't break a line or a sentence (breaking by dot would break
the following sentence wrong: "The dot "." is balck and small.").
So here's my function how to break a string by any string (if that is corret english :D)
<?
function limitchars($text,$lim,$break,$tail)
{
$text = split("$break",$text);
// If you want this function case insensitive
// replace above line with these two lines
// $text=preg_replace("/$break/i",strtolower($break),$text);
// $text = split(strtolower("$break"),$text);
if(strlen(implode("$break",$text))>=$lim)
{
$i=0;
$add_str="";
while($i<=count($text))
{
$add_str=$text[$i];
$out[]=$add_str;
if(strlen(implode("$break",$out))>=$lim-strlen($break)) break;
$add_str="";
$i++;
}
$text=implode("$break",$out);
if(substr($text, 0, -strlen($break))==$break) $text = substr($text, 0, -strlen($break));
$text="$text$tail";
}
else
{
$text=implode("$break",$text);
}
return $text;
}
$data="1<br>2<br>3<br>4";
$linebreak="3";
$splitter="<br>";
$tail="...";
echo limitchars($data,$linebreak,$splitter,$tail);
// returns: 1...
$data="1<br>2<br>3<br>4";
$linebreak="6";
$splitter="<br>";
$tail="...";
echo limitchars($data,$linebreak,$splitter,$tail);
// returns: 1<br>2...
?>
I hope this function helps and has enough features to substr a text correctly.