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Posted by Jay Blanchard on 11/02/05 23:45
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I seem to remember a built in php function that will take a huge block of
text.
Then just spit out X number of characters from it and follow it with an
additional string value.
But I cannot remember what it is.
I seem to remember it being something other than the substr().
I am looking to pull the first say 200 characters from an article and follow
the last character/word with something like ...
Does anyone know what I am talking about, or am I just smoking something and
my memory is going?
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Usually folks roll their own as there is no set function for this.
$myShortString = substr($string, 0, 200)."...";
will work, but you're going to cutoff in the middle of some word at the end
of the substring usually.
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