> I'm doing a page where the front page will show "news"
> stories. What I'd
> like is if the story is longer than X words/chars/etc, the
> index page will
> show the first X words, then a link for the full story.
>
> Does anyone have a good idea on how to split after a certain number of
> words?
>
> Thanks,
> Wade
Put the story in an array and grab the first x elements? Say you want 50
words you would do:
$num_of_words = 50;
$story_array = explode(" ", $story, $num_of_words);
$story_preview = implode(" ", array_pop($story));
Assuming all words are seperated by a space.
Dustin
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