Posted by John Nichel on 09/26/82 11:10

Jackson Linux wrote:
> Hi, everyone, I apologise if this posts twice; I'm having issues with my
> outgoing email server.
>
> I'm making 'teasers' of the first, say 200 to 250 characters of some
> articles. This works great:
>
> $content = strip_tags($article['content']);
> $striptease = substr($content, 0, 275);
>
> but cuts off words right in the midd ...
>
> I'd like to find a way to take $content, look at the first 250
> characters, then count backwards to the last space and chop it there.
>
> Does anyone have an ideas/scripts for this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jack
>

You can do something like this...

function subEndWord ( $string, $start, $max ) {
$string = substr ( $string, $start, $max );
$string = preg_replace ( "/\s\w+$/", "", $string );
return $string;
}

Untested, but should work. Tinker with the RegEx to perfect it.

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John C. Nichel
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KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john@kegworks.com

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