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A lot of sites will create a text "preview" on the front page of thier site (say a news story) with
a "more" link to get the full story.
You can easily chop a string at a certain number of characters using substr():
| <?php
$charLimit = 25;
$myText = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
$teaserText = substr($myText,0,$charLimit) . "... <a href="<your more link>">more</a>";
echo $teaserText;
?> | |
Which echos: "The quick brown fox jumpe... more"
If you wanted to chop the text at a word break, rather than mid-word, you can do this:
| <?php
$wordLimit = 7;
$myText = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
$teaserText = '';
$words = explode(' ',$myText);
$i = 0;
while($i < $wordLimit)
{
$i++;
$teaserText .= $words[$i]." ";
}
$teaserText .= "... <a href="<your more link>">more</a>";
?> | |
Which echos: "The quick brown fox jumped over the... more" |
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| | | | José Santos wrote :965
Limit text to N characters, N integer, and for more information click on the link, is very useful in websites (example: news).
This is very simple to implement.
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