Limit text to display

[skyknight]

I have text with 500 letters length and i want oscom display only 50 letters from 500 letters. Any idea or tips?

 

Thank alot

Kurniawan

[211655]

Pass your variable to this function.

add this function to your functions library

<?php

/**
* Add this to your page:
* <?php
* include "shorten_a_text_string.php";
* echo ShortenText($text);
* ?>
* where $text is the text you want to shorten.
* 
* Example
* Test it using this in a PHP page:
* <?php
* include "shortentext.php";
* $text = "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.";
* echo ShortenText($text);
* ?>
*/

function ShortenText($text) {

	// Change to the number of characters you want to display
	$chars = 50;

	$text = $text." ";
	$text = substr($text,0,$chars);
	$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
	$text = $text."...";

	return $text;

}

?>