One way to do it is to:
loop through the list of articles;
explode the body of article ==> $words = explode(" ", $body, 21);
$words is now an array of 21 elements, the first 20 elements contain the
first 20 words in the body, the 21st element contains the rest of the body;
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Jason Wong
Gremlins Associates
www.gremlins.com.hk
>
> On my website I want to display some articles, in Slashdot style. The
> main page should only display the first 20 words of the article, and
> users should be able to click on a link to view the entire article.
> The articles are stored in a MySQL database, the body of the article in a
> blob-field.
>
> My question is this: how can I select only those first 20 words in the
> PHP code?
>
> I hope somebody can help me with this.
>
> Cilfa
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