RE: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph

2004-02-04 Thread Brian Paulson
$string = substr($stringname,0,50); echo $string; http://www.php.net/substr Thank You Brian Paulson Sr. Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chieftain.com 1-800-279-6397 x 207 -Original Message- From: Daniel Perez Clavero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004

RE: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Matijevich
snip $string = substr($stringname,0,50); echo $string; http://www.php.net/substr /snip That will just give the first 50 characters of the string. You could just try one of the many suggestions on http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php Scroll down to the user comments and

Re: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph

2004-02-04 Thread Adam Bregenzer
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 09:00, Daniel Perez Clavero wrote: To Extract the first 50 words, should I use str_word_count, and explode/implode or there´s another way, much simple. Any sample would be apreciated. Regards Regular expressions should do the trick: $extract = array();

Re: [PHP] Extract of a Paragraph

2004-02-04 Thread Justin French
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 02:35 AM, Brian Paulson wrote: $string = substr($stringname,0,50); echo $string; http://www.php.net/substr No, that's 50 *characters* -- he wanted 50 *words*. A quick and reasonably accurate[1] solution would be this: Daniel, There's a few things you need