Re: [PHP] Splitting at word count
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?
?php
if (strlen($story) 50){
$start = 50;
#You may want to add "\t" and "-" and suchlike as "break" chars:
while (isset($story[$start]) $story[$start] != ' '
$story[$start] != "\n")){
$start++;
}
echo substr($story, 0, $start);
#We may have managed to squeeze out the last word...
if ($start strlen($story)){
echo "A HREF=fullstory.php?story_id=$story_idM O R E/A";
}
}
else{
echo $story;
}
?
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Re: [PHP] Splitting at word count
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?
We have a "news" section with an index page that shows the
first 3 articles in our queue. These articles are limited
to their first 29 words. We then add a link to the full
article.
You can view this live: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/news/index.php
$article = fgets($fd, 8192)
/* Full text of your article. We get it from a file
using fgets($fd, 8192) */
/* remove tags if there are any */
$newscontent = strip_tags($article) ;
$pattern = " " ;
$arr = split($pattern, $newscontent, 50);
$story .= ("p") ;
for ($i = 0 ; $i 29 ; $i++)
{
$story .= (" " . $arr[$i]) ;
}
$story .= (" (cont.) a
href=\"yourarticlefilename.html\"Full article/a/p\n");
We use this PHP in the HEAD of our document, so whenever
we want it to be published we just use ? echo $story ; ?
It may not be very elegant, but it does work fine!
Hope it helps
Jose
Jose Casal-Gimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University Web Support Officer
Communications Development Office
G17, The Registry, University of Kent, CT2 7NZ
Tel: (01227) 823102
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RE: [PHP] Splitting at word count
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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